Between God, the Dead and the Wild : : Chamba Interpretations of Ritual & Religion / / 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 i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International African Library : IAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of 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