Remains of Ritual
Northern Gods in a Southern Land
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2010
274 pages
978-0-226-26506-3 (ISBN)
Description
Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson's second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality-in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson's careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- On Language
- Note on Transcriptions
- Southern Lands
- Northern Gods
- Brekete Pantheon
- 1. Where Divine Horsemen Ride
- 2. Salah! Salah!
- 3. The Poured Gift
- 4. Deadland
- 5. The Rhtyhm of the Crossroads
- 6. Burials
- Coda: Opening the Door
- Postlude
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
