Dancing with the gods [electronic resource] essays in Ga ritual / Marion Kilson.
2012
DT510.43.G3 .K55 2012eb
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Dancing with the gods [electronic resource] essays in Ga ritual / Marion Kilson.
Author
Kilson, Marion, 1936-
ISBN
9780761859987 electronic book
9780761859970
9780761859970
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Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (xi, 148 p.) : ill.; maps.
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DT510.43.G3 .K55 2012eb
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301.420
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"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.
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Table of Contents
Libation in Ga Ritual
Taxonomy and Form in Ga Ritual
The Structure of Ga Prayer
"I Call You for Life"
Prayer and Song in Ga Ritual
Ritual Portrait of a Ga Medium
Ambivalence and Power: Mediums in Ga Religion
Homowo: Celebrating Community in Ga Culture
Bushcows in the Sky
Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture
The Ga Naming Rite
Antelopes and Stools: Ga Ceremonial Kingship.
Taxonomy and Form in Ga Ritual
The Structure of Ga Prayer
"I Call You for Life"
Prayer and Song in Ga Ritual
Ritual Portrait of a Ga Medium
Ambivalence and Power: Mediums in Ga Religion
Homowo: Celebrating Community in Ga Culture
Bushcows in the Sky
Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture
The Ga Naming Rite
Antelopes and Stools: Ga Ceremonial Kingship.