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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Prologue | 1 | |
| 1 | Field and Method | 11 |
| 1.1 | The Yaka People | 11 |
| 1.2 | Fieldwork | 20 |
| 1.3 | Bantu Cults of Affliction | 23 |
| 1.4 | Healers in the Town | 25 |
| 1.5 | Healing as a Social and Theatrical Drama: A Critique | 33 |
| 1.6 | Body and Weave: A Semantic-Praxilogical Approach | 37 |
| 2 | The Cosmology of Gender Arrangements and Life Transmission | 53 |
| 2.1 | Horizontal and Vertical Spice | 54 |
| 2.2 | Cosmological Portrayal of Gender | 60 |
| 2.3 | Animals and Plants | 74 |
| 2.4 | Capturing and 'Cooking' Untamed Forces | 86 |
| 3 | The Social Formation of Life Transmission | 92 |
| 3.1 | Life-hearing and Nurturing in the Homestead | 93 |
| 3.2 | Marriage as a Transfer "Along the Path to the Village" | 101 |
| 3.3 | The Reproductive Cell | 106 |
| 3.4 | The Two-forked Tree of Agnatic Descent and Uterine Filiation | 115 |
| 3.5 | Hunting versus Sorcery, and the Fabric of Kin | 122 |
| 4 | Body, Group, and Life-world: Between Maze and Weave | 132 |
| 4.1 | Physical and Sensory Modes of Contact | 134 |
| 4.2 | The Relational Body | 139 |
| 4.3 | The Body and Its Afflictions | 146 |
| 4.4 | Cults of Affliction and Communal Sodalities | 147 |
| 5 | Impediments to Life Transmission | 161 |
| 5.1 | Masculinist Views on Human Agencies in Infertility | 164 |
| 5.2 | Divinatory Etiology and the Work of Cults | 169 |
| 5.3 | Etiology as an indication of Therapy | 173 |
| 6 | The Khita Fertility Cult: Reversing the Evil | 179 |
| 6.1 | Khita and Similar Cults | 180 |
| 6.2 | The First Stage: Reversing the Persecution into Uterine Bonds of Life Transmission | 183 |
| 6.3 | The Second Stage: The Decay and Cooking of Generative Forces | 196 |
| 7 | The Khita Fertility Cult: Reorigination of the Fabric of Body, Kin, and Life-world | 213 |
| 7.1 | The Third Stage: Seclusion in the Uterus of the World | 214 |
| 7.2 | The Fourth Stage: Emancipating Forest Forces into Social Fecundity | 224 |
| 7.3 | Relapse of Illness | 244 |
| 7.4 | Fertility Rituals and Analyses Compared: A Look at Victor Turner | 245 |
| 8 | The Body as the Weaving Loom of Healing and Life | 255 |
| 8.1 | The Role of Music and Dance in Healing | 259 |
| 8.2 | The Source of Healing | 264 |
| 8.3 | Paradox, Transgression, and Homeopathic Healing | 267 |
| 8.4 | A Ternary Logic of Mediation and Effusion in Self-healing | 276 |
| Epilogue | 282 | |
| Appendix A: A Case of Infertility | 285 | |
| Appendix B: Herbarium | 293 | |
| Maps | 296 | |
| Notes | 299 | |
| References | 315 | |
| Index | 325 |
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