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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Fardon, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International African Library : IAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474468145; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474468145
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Fardon.

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.