The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual Among the Giriama of Kenya
(Book #80 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521404665
ISBN13:9780521404662
Release Date:July 1991
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:1.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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