Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual

Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual
ISBN-10
0761859977
ISBN-13
9780761859970
Category
Ghana
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Marion Kilson

Description

This book 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.

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