The Dancing Dead - Ritual Religion Among Kapsiki;Higi of North Cameroon Northeastern

Informationen zum Autor Professor of Anthropology, Tilburg University, Netherlands Klappentext Walter E. A. van Beek draws on extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region. Zusammenfassung Walter E. A. van Beek draws on extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region.

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• Authors: Walter E. A. Van Beek, Walter E. A. van Beek
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2012
• EAN: 9780199858149
• ISBN: 978-0-19-985814-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Nigeria, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Devotional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Cameroon, Traditional African religions and spiritual beliefs, Tribal religions, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal