The dancing dead ritual and religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: New York Oxford university press 2012Description: 345 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 978-0-19-985814-9
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Contents:
Language and orthography -- The funeral of Zra Teri Kwada -- Understanding African ritual -- Slaves, war and the wider world -- Rituals of dwelling -- At home in the mountains -- Sacrifice and the history of dwelling -- The other side of the world -- Rain and cycle of ritual -- Rituals of belonging -- Starting life -- The song of the bride -- The brass boys: initiation -- Harvesting crops, harvesting people -- The dancing dead -- Dynamics of Kapsiki ritual.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 122.566 ASE Available 8815010-10

Language and orthography -- The funeral of Zra Teri Kwada -- Understanding African ritual -- Slaves, war and the wider world -- Rituals of dwelling -- At home in the mountains -- Sacrifice and the history of dwelling -- The other side of the world -- Rain and cycle of ritual -- Rituals of belonging -- Starting life -- The song of the bride -- The brass boys: initiation -- Harvesting crops, harvesting people -- The dancing dead -- Dynamics of Kapsiki ritual.