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The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki / Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria - Oxford Ritual Studies Series
Van Beek, Walter E. A. (Professor of Anthropology of Religion, Professor of Anthropology of Religion, Tilburg University)
The Dancing Dead: Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki / Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria - Oxford Ritual Studies Series
Van Beek, Walter E. A. (Professor of Anthropology of Religion, Professor of Anthropology of Religion, Tilburg University)
Walter E. A. van Beek draws on 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.
384 pages, illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | USA, June 21, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780199858163 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 157 × 234 × 24 mm · 484 g |