Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) $18.31 Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice 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 th… |
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August 11th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Occultism, Africa, and one man, living through all of it it.,
Friedson finds himself in a balancing act between “being there and away”. The ultimate challenge in any anthropological/social/cultural fieldwork. Travel with him as he reveals the beauty of Brekete shrine worship. This unabashed tale of travel, letting go, and modern fieldwork that journeys into an incredible world is worthy of accolades in literature and culture studies. Music is the lifeblood, the rhythm, and the pulse of these rituals of spirit possession, sacrifice, and polytheistic interplay. Travel to the land where vodou began.
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