Divine fertility : the continuity in transformation of an ideology of sacred kinship in Northeast Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mire, Sada, 1977- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Subjects:	Fertility cults > Africa, Northeast. Kinship > Africa, Northeast > Religious aspects. Indigenous peoples > Africa, Northeast > Religion. Africa, Northeast > Social life and customs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Aims, structure, concepts, terminology, the movement of peoples and ideas
Sacred landscapes, materiality and fertility rituals
Material culture, fertility and sacrifice at the sacred site of Aw-Barkhadle
In the name of divine kinship: the fertility bath, Bun Shuruur, Baanshada Dumarka, Zar, Sitaat, Wagar, Gudnid Fircooni ("FGM") Waqlaal and Istunka
Sacred fertility of a divine kinship ideology: indigenous institutions and Sufi Islam in the Horn of Africa
An ideology of fertility in the archaeology of the Horn of Africa: Aw-Barkhadle and beyond
Conclusions: Divine fertility of a sacred kinship ideology.