Personhood and Agency: The Experience of Self and Other in African Cultures

Papers presented at a symposium on African Folk Models and their applications including Congolese conceptions of personhood, shapeshifting amongst the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, Iteso rituals of Possession, the widows dream, Sex and Death in Western Kenya, the human body as a vehicle for emotions among the Yaka of Zaire, Cultural bias and the cosmos: home universes in Southern Africa, initiation: a folk model among the lobi, the formation of personality in Fulani ethnopsychology ( from the introduction)