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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dancing dead
    sub title: ritual and religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of north Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria
  name:
    name part: Beek, W. E. A. van.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Walter E.A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region. Kapsiki rituals reveal a focus on two fundamental concepts: dwelling and belonging. Van Beek examines their sacrificial practices, through which the Kapsiki show a complex and pervasive connection with the Mandara Mountains, as well as the character of their relationships among themselves and with outsiders. Van Beek also explores their rituals of belonging, rites of passage which take place from birth through initiation and marriage - and even death, with the tradition of the ''dancing dead, '' when a fully decorated corpse on the shoulders of a smith ''dances'' with his mourning kinsmen. The Dancing Dead is the result of the author's lifelong study of the Kapsiki/Higi. It gives a unique description of the rituals in an African traditional religion based not upon ancestors, but on a completely relational thought system, where in the end all rituals are integrated into one major cycle.
  table of contents: Language and orthography -- The funeral of Zra Teri Kwada -- Understanding African ritual -- Slaves, war and the wider world -- Rituals of dwelling -- At home in the mountains -- Sacrifice and the history of dwelling -- The other side of the world -- Rain and cycle of ritual -- Rituals of belonging -- Starting life -- The song of the bride -- The brass boys: initiation -- Harvesting crops, harvesting people -- The dancing dead -- Dynamics of Kapsiki ritual.
  note: Walter E.A. van Beek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-cm---
    geographic code: f-nr---
  subject:
    topic: Kamwe (African people)
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
  subject:
    topic: Kamwe (African people)
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Kamwe (African people)
    topic: Funeral customs and rites
  subject:
    topic: Kapsiki (Peuple d'Afrique)
    topic: Rites et cérémonies
  subject:
    topic: Kapsiki (Peuple d'Afrique)
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Kapsiki (Peuple d'Afrique)
    topic: Rites et cérémonies funéraires
  subject:
    topic: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
    topic: Spirituality
    topic: Paganism & Neo-Paganism
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Comparative Religion
  subject:
    topic: History & Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Regions & Countries - Africa
  classification: DT571.K36 B44 2012eb
  classification: 299.37
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      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 120521
    record change date: 20260318190333.6
    record identifier: in00005708044
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng