Sacred Void

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

Автор: David Parkin

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: 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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Автор

David Parkin

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

284

EAN

9780521024983

ISBN

0521024986

Enbook ID

02018518

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

438

Размери

229 x 150 x 17

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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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