Name: The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion Among the Kapsiki (en Inglés)
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Author: Walter E. A. Van Beek
ISBN: 9780199858163

portada The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion Among the Kapsiki (en Inglés)

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Oxford Univ Pr

Autor

Walter E. A. Van Beek

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0199858160

ISBN13

9780199858163

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The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion Among the Kapsiki (en Inglés)

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Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of 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.Kapsiki rituals reveal a focus on two fundamental concepts: dwelling and belonging. Van Beek examines their sacrificial practices, through which the Kapsiki show a complex and pervasive connection with the Mandara Mountains, as well as the character of their relationships among themselves and with outsiders. Van Beek also explores their rituals of belonging, rites of passage which take place from birth through initiation and marriage and even death, with the tradition of the "dancing dead," when a fully decorated corpse on the shoulders of a smith dances" with his mourning kinsmen.The Dancing Dead is the result of the author's lifelong study of the Kapsiki/Higi. It gives a unique description of the rituals in an African traditional religion based not upon ancestors, but on a completely relational thought system, where in the end all rituals are integrated into one major cycle.