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Kilson, Marion

 
9780761859970: Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual
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ISBN 10: 0761859977 ISBN 13: 9780761859970
Editorial: University Press of America, 2012

Sinopsis

Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive analyses of verbal and non-verbal ritual action. While verbal ritual actions specify ideas pertinent to a particular rite, non-verbal ritual actions express more general concepts. Kilson's analyses show how the same motifs of non-verbal ritual action recur in sacred and secular Ga rites. Whenever and wherever such motifs occur, they convey the same basic underlying Ga concepts, thereby creating a unified conceptual network of belief that is the foundation of the Ga ritual system. The essays in this collection previously appeared in Anthropos, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Parabola, and Sextant.

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Acerca del autor

Marion Kilson is an anthropologist and the author of Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era (Bergin & Garvey 2000).

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Editorial
University Press of America
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0761859977
ISBN 13 
9780761859970
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Número de páginas
136
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