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Kpele Lala : Ga Religious Songs and Symbols / Marion Kilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kilson, Marion, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gã (African people)--Religion.
- Gã (African people).
- Songs, Gã--Ghana--Texts.
- Songs, Gã.
- Gã (African people)--Religion.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
- Songs, Gã--Ghana--Texts.
- Local Subjects:
- Gã (African people)--Religion.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
- Songs, Gã--Ghana--Texts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.): 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations. Tables
- Foreword by T. О. Beidelman
- Part I: Kpele Songs and Symbolism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Kpele Cult and Songs
- 3. Singing Kpele Songs
- 4. The World of Kpele Songs
- 5. Metaphors in Kpele Ritual
- 6. The Kpele Community
- Part II: Kpele Song Texts
- Introductory Note
- The Supreme Being
- Cosmogony
- Cosmos
- Divine Beings
- Ritual Performance
- Human Society
- Ga Polity
- Ga Culture
- Animals
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18209-X
- OCLC:
- 1013943740
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