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100 1 0 _aKedzierska-Manzon, Agnieszka
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520 _aAnalysis of kilisiw incantations used among the Mande people (West Africa) leads to a critical review of anthropological theories of the effectiveness of ritual speech. The analysis concludes with a demonstration of the specificity of this speech, whose meaning depends upon its sound and the speaker’s bodily engagement in its production rather than the conventional association of the signified and signifiers.
786 0 _nGenèses | o 104 | 3 | 2016-08-02 | p. 30-50 | 1155-3219
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-geneses-2016-3-page-30?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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