Remains of Ritual - Northern Gods in a Southern Land

Zusammenfassung A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country.

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• Authors: Steven M. Friedson, FRIEDSON STEVEN M
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2009
• EAN: 9780226265049
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26504-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous