@article{694206,
      recid = {694206},
      author = {Kilson, Marion,},
      title = {Dancing with the gods essays in Ga ritual / [electronic  resource]},
      publisher = {University Press of America,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 148 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"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."--Publisher's  website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694206},
}