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1 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
Born in West Africa in the early 1950s Somé was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he returned to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they rejected him as an outsider. To reconnect with his native culture, Some underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism during which he reports that he journeyed to the underworld, became a bird, then a porcupine and was buried alive. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Somé, Malidoma Patrice, 1956-
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Dagaaba (African people) -- Biography.
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Shamans -- Burkina Faso -- Biography.
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Dagaaba (African people) -- Religion.
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Dagaaba (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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| Added Author |
Somé, Malidoma Patrice.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781577318729 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1577318722 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12025641 |
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