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The language of secrecyBook 1984 • Bellman, Beryl Larry
Kpelle • Africa > Western Africa
The author of this study analyzes the various forms used by Kpelle to communicate or withhold information, treating lying and secrecy as 'communicative events' in the context of ritual and initiation activities of the Poro secret society. Among these...Village of curers and assassinsBook 1975 • Bellman, Beryl Larry
Kpelle • Africa > Western Africa
This is a methodological, theoretical investigation into what the author calls 'the production of cosmological categories' by the Fala Kpelle speakers of Sucromu, Liberia. What the author means by this is discussed in much detail in the two parts mak...