Just Leave the Tree-Trunk Alone: A Magical-Realistic Journey Through the Land of the Bawng in the Congo

by Toon Van Buren

Book Overview

'Just leave the tree-trunk alone, the beetle is crawling out.' This Baw ng proverb means: surrender to the divine course. Man must not start tugging at this tree, the beetle is already busy cleaning it up. In 1967, Tony van Buren went as a missionary-sponsored anthropologist to the Baw ng of the Congo, neighbours of the Lele made famous by Mary Douglas, initially to investigate her contentions about the 'non-religious' reasons for the mission's success...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955640032
• ISBN13: 9780955640032
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"