Kpele Lala : : Ga Religious Songs and Symbols / / Marion Kilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kilson, Marion,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1971
• Rok wydania: 2013
• Wydanie: Reprint 2014
• Język: English
• Opis fizyczny: 1 online resource (313 p.) :; 8 halftones, 1 map, 11 tables

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Illustrations. Tables
• Foreword by T. О. Beidelman
• Part I: Kpele Songs and Symbolism
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Kpele Cult and Songs
• 3. Singing Kpele Songs
• 4. The World of Kpele Songs
• 5. Metaphors in Kpele Ritual
• 6. The Kpele Community
• Part II: Kpele Song Texts
• Introductory Note
• The Supreme Being
• Cosmogony
• Cosmos
• Divine Beings
• Ritual Performance
• Human Society
• Ga Polity
• Ga Culture
• Animals
• Bibliography
• Index