A01=Marion Kilson
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- ISBN 9780761859970
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 160 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2012
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive analyses of verbal and non-verbal ritual action. While verbal ritual actions specify ideas pertinent to a particular rite, non-verbal ritual actions express more general concepts. Kilson’s analyses show how the same motifs of non-verbal ritual action recur in sacred and secular Ga rites. Whenever and wherever such motifs occur, they convey the same basic underlying Ga concepts, thereby creating a unified conceptual network of belief that is the foundation of the Ga ritual system. The essays in this collection previously appeared in Anthropos, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Parabola, and Sextant.
Marion Kilson received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1967 and retired as dean of the Graduate School at Salem State University in 2001. Her previous books on Ga culture and society are Kpele Lala: Ga Religious Songs and Symbols and African Urban Kinsmen: the Ga of Central Accra.
