Carte Sacred Void David Parkin

Sacred Void

Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya

Autor: David Parkin
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworke...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
1991
Pagini
284
EAN
9780521404662
ISBN
0521404665
Enbook ID
02029786
Greutate
562
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 19

Descriere completă

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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