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Talk · Minnesota Men's Conference · 2016The Forgotten Art of Drowning
44 min
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A conference talk on grief, on being undone, and on why a community needs to witness it.

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Meet Malidoma Patrice Somé.

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Dagara tradition · ritual

Malidoma Patrice Somé

Writer and teacher of the Dagara tradition (1956–2021), born in Dano in Burkina Faso and taken at the age of four to be raised by Jesuit priests. He later studied in the West and spent most of his adult life teaching ritual and initiation in the United States and Europe.

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