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The Sacred Void - Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (Paperback, New ed)
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The Sacred Void - Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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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 between
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 labourers or fishermen on
the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and
formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland,
which few of them ever see or visit. Their different perspectives
sometimes conflict, but together provide a shifting idea of the
sacred place. As the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies,
moreover, the settlement becomes especially important at times of
national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society,
and a symbolic defence against total domination and assimilation.
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