Marion Kilson

Dancing with the Gods (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Ga Ritual

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761881469
• Artikelnr.: 74829715

Autorenporträt

Marion Kilson received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1967 and retired as dean of the Graduate School at Salem State University in 2001. Her previous books on Ga culture and society are Kpele Lala: Ga Religious Songs and Symbols and African Urban Kinsmen: the Ga of Central Accra.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Libation in Ga Ritual
Chapter 2. Taxonomy and Form in Ga Ritual
Chapter 3. The Structure of Ga Prayer
Chapter 4. "I Call You for Life"
Chapter 5. Prayer and Song in Ga Ritual
Chapter 6. Ritual Portrait of a Ga Medium
Chapter 7. Ambivalence and Power: Mediums in Ga Religion
Chapter 8. Homowo: Celebrating Community in Ga Culture
Chapter 9. Bushcows in the Sky
Chapter 10. Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture
Chapter 11. The Ga Naming Rite
Chapter 12. Antelopes and Stools: Ga Ceremonial Kingship
Concluding Note
Bibliography