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Between God, the Dead and the Wild : Chamba Interpretations of Ritual & Religion / Richard Fardon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748602841
  • 9781474468145
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Orthography -- Chapter 1 Protestations of ignorance? Or, things left unsaid? -- Chapter 2 Ways of being: the living, the dead, the wild and God -- Chapter 3 Ɉup: the Mapeo variant of cult -- Chapter 4 Lera and vↄma: the Yeli variant -- Chapter 5 The human span -- Chapter 6 The annual round -- Chapter 7 The animate wild -- Chapter 8 Inanimate wilderness, and the nature of things -- Chapter 9 The new religions of God -- Chapter 10 God and the dead: locating the unknown -- Appendix 1: Do different exegeses reflect only research methodology? -- Appendix 2: Notes on Chamba cults -- References -- Index
Summary: Based on observations in two West African villages - one a traditionally uncentralised community in contemporary Nigeria, the other a small chiefdom in Cameroon - this study shows that despite basic presuppositions regarding various types of being, the beliefs of the two groups manifest themselves in quite different ways. Focusing particularly on Chamba conceptions of people, masks and cults, Richard Fardon applies contemporary social theory to Chamba religion and shows how particular individuals integrate their concerns with notions of human purpose, the agricultural cycle and the values of the wilds.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Orthography -- Chapter 1 Protestations of ignorance? Or, things left unsaid? -- Chapter 2 Ways of being: the living, the dead, the wild and God -- Chapter 3 Ɉup: the Mapeo variant of cult -- Chapter 4 Lera and vↄma: the Yeli variant -- Chapter 5 The human span -- Chapter 6 The annual round -- Chapter 7 The animate wild -- Chapter 8 Inanimate wilderness, and the nature of things -- Chapter 9 The new religions of God -- Chapter 10 God and the dead: locating the unknown -- Appendix 1: Do different exegeses reflect only research methodology? -- Appendix 2: Notes on Chamba cults -- References -- Index

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Based on observations in two West African villages - one a traditionally uncentralised community in contemporary Nigeria, the other a small chiefdom in Cameroon - this study shows that despite basic presuppositions regarding various types of being, the beliefs of the two groups manifest themselves in quite different ways. Focusing particularly on Chamba conceptions of people, masks and cults, Richard Fardon applies contemporary social theory to Chamba religion and shows how particular individuals integrate their concerns with notions of human purpose, the agricultural cycle and the values of the wilds.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)