9780748602223 - Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba Interpretations of Ritual & Religion (International African Library) von Fardon, Richard (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvii, 252 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. A study of the Chamba religion in two West African villages - one in Cameroon and one in Nigeria. Contents: Protestations of ignorance? Or, things left unsaid?; ways of being: the living, the dead, the wild and god; Jup: the Mapeo variant of cult; Lera and v(c)ma: the Yeli variant; the human span; the annual round; the animate wild; inanimate wilderness, and the nature of things; the new religions of god; god and the dead: locating the unknown.

1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvii, 252 pages: ill; 24cm. Subjects: Chamba (African people) Religion. Religion and sociology. Africa, West Religion. West Africa Religion Sociological perspectives. 3 Kg.