Braided Worlds Book

Preface
A Note to Readers

1 A Beng Path to Birth (September 1986–May 1987)
Alma: Of Blessings and Bad Faith
Philip: The Scrabble Champion
Alma: Two Homes and a Hospital

2 Censored Words (March 1990)
Philip: La Crise
Alma: Can You Teach Anthropology to a Toddler?
Philip: Our Own House of Mbari

3 Back in the Village (May–June 1993)
Alma: The House of Africa
Philip: Raising the Stakes
Alma: Old Agendas, New Agendas
Philip: The Adventures of Tintin
Alma: The Spirit of Grandfather Denju
Philip: One Screen Door

4 Casting Spells (June–July 1993)
Alma: Another Story to Confess
Philip: Anything but Invisible
Alma: Too Expensive to Die
Philip: The Waiting Fax

5 Things of the Heart (July–August 1993)
Alma: Mad to Be Modern
Philip: My Father’s African Afterlife
Alma: The First Twelve Months of Life
Philip: Welcoming Ghosts
Alma: Amenan’s Lament
Philip: “Denju, Denju”
Alma: Mystical Musical Chairs
Philip: Gifting Party
Alma: Tying Up Loose Ends
Philip: Shooting Fish

6 A Different Fieldwork Site (January 1994)
Alma: Converging Paths
Philip: “Ka’na Poblé”
Epilogue: Côte d’Ivoire and the Beng in Crisis
A Brief Note about the Beng
Cast of Characters

Glossary

Map: Côte d’Ivoire
Map: Beng region
Map: Amenan’s compound, 1993
Map: Côte d’Ivoire’s civil war and the Beng region, ca. 2006

Acknowledgments
Index