The Dancing Dead
Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2012
240 pages
978-0-19-985815-6 (ISBN)
Description
Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region.
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Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
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Walter E. A. van Beek
The Dancing Dead
Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
Book
06/2012
1st Edition
Oxford University Press Inc
€145.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Language and Orthography
- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Funeral of Zra Teri Kwada
- 2. Understanding African Ritual
- 3. Slaves, War, and the Wider World
- PART TWO: RITUALS OF DWELLING
- 4. At Home in the Mountains
- 5. Sacrifice and the History of Dwelling
- 6. The Other Side of the World
- 7. Rain and the Cycle of Ritual
- PART THREE: RITUALS OF BELONGING
- 8. Starting Life
- 9. The Song of the Bride
- 10. The Brass Boys: Initiation
- 11. Harvesting Crops, Harvesting People
- 12. The Dancing Dead
- 13. Dynamics of Kapsiki Ritual
- Appendix
- A founding myth of the Kapsiki
- Birth order names
- Glossary of Kapsiki terms
- A
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- Kapsiki plant names
- End Notes
- References
- Index
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