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Title:Living together with 'bad things': the persistance of Gāmk notions of mystical agents
Author:Okazaki, Akira
Book title:Sudan Sahel studies: vol. I
Year:1984
Pages:95-138
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:magic
ethnic groups
Abstract:The 55.000 Gāmk live on the slopes or at the foot of the Ingessana Hills in the Southern Funj Region. A lenghty introduction is followed by a discussion of Gāmk diviners and mystical agents. Mystical agents explain otherwise incomprehensible events in this world. They are called 'bad things', presumably because ordinary people can't see them. The author examines major and minor 'bad things' and concludes that the Gāmk have a strong tendency to adjust to changing situations by means of reinterpreting the mystical agents. Bibliogr., notes.
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