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The Sacred Void
David Parkin
其他書名
Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya
出版Cambridge University Press, 2006-03-16
主題Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN05210249869780521024983
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5YGozgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 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. It is the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies and becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defense against total domination and assimilation.