Sacred Void

Name: Sacred Void
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521404662
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Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya

Autor: David Parkin

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Cambridge University Press

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In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworke...

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Autor

David Parkin

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

1991

Stránok

284

EAN

9780521404662

ISBN

0521404665

Enbook ID

02029786

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

562

Rozmery

152 x 229 x 19

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In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as labourers or fishermen on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. Their different perspectives sometimes conflict, but together provide a shifting idea of the sacred place. As the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies, moreover, the settlement becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defence against total domination and assimilation.

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