The Sacred Void Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya 1st Edition by David Parkin ISBN 0511521138 9780521404662
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ISBN 10: 0511521138
ISBN 13: 9780521404662
Author: David Parkin
In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations among communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as laborers or fisherman on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. It is the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies and becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defense against total domination and assimilation.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Fantasies of the West
Chapter 2: Western Kaya, Sacred Centre
Chapter 3: View from the West: Cattle and Co-operation
Chapter 4: From West to East: The Works of Marriage
Chapter 5: Spanning West and East: Dances of Death
Chapter 6: Alternative Authorities: Incest and Fertility
Chapter 7: Alternative Selves: Invasions and Cure
Chapter 8: Coastal Desires and the Person as Centre
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