Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables x
5. Introduction. About Life and Health 1
6. Chapter 1. Scientific Language, Knowledge Frameworks and Ways of Reasoning 16
7. Chapter 2. Life Animation and Transmission: The Language of the Ancestors 43
8. Chapter 3. Life Resources, Sustenance and Growth: The Language of the Spirit and Life-Force of Nature (Kɔntɔnmɛ) 54
9. Chapter 4. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The White Bagr Healing Cult and the Food Domain 78
10. Chapter 5. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The Black Bagr Healing Cult and the Domain of Healing Toxins, the Inedible and Undomesticated 112
11. Chapter 6. Language and the Cultural Ideation of Healing: The Healer and the Healing Cult (Tibr) 143
12. Chapter 7. The Healer, the Healing Cult and the Patient Observed 181
13. Conclusion. Nature and the Cosmic Life in Elements 205
14. Appendix 223
15. References 229
16. Index 236