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A. Mary

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L'alternative de la vision et de la possession dans les sociétés religieuses et thérapeutiques du Gabon.

1983 A. Mary

A. Mary — Vision and Possession: An Alternative in Gabonese Religious and Curative Societies. ; Vision, as an initiatory experience calling for the absorption of a hallucinogenic drug (eboga), has been retained by the Fang bwiti cuit as a privileged medium of surreal communication. It displays a number of traits differentiating it from possession as practised in other Gabonese therapeutic...