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An Afrikan Ritual of Heritage in the Circle of Life
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Artikel-Nr:
9780761867111
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Kimani S. K. Nehusi
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. It connects the practice of libation throughout time, connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves, across generations in different spaces and times.
This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other divinities, to ancestors, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans affirm and re-establish cosmic balance, interconnection and interdependence: the harmony and balance, connection and interdependency within, between and among humans, the environment, the spirit world, and the Creator. The text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious time/space correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life, connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves across generations in different spaces and times. The methodology is at once both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary. The methods and techniques of history, linguistics, cultural studies, literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a comprehensive reconstruction, description and analysis of a ritual that has long been antique, but has never become antiquated.
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Photographs in the Photospread
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Photographic Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hr qbHw: On Libation
Chapter 2. The Origins of Libation
Chapter 3. The Origins and Evolution of the Offering Complex
Chapter 4. On Our Sacred Ancestors
Chapter 5. Transmission across Space and Time
Chapter 6. Ritual Significances
Chapter 7. Some Conclusions
Chapter 8. Some Questions and Answers
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Photographs in the Photospread
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Photographic Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hr qbHw: On Libation
Chapter 2. The Origins of Libation
Chapter 3. The Origins and Evolution of the Offering Complex
Chapter 4. On Our Sacred Ancestors
Chapter 5. Transmission across Space and Time
Chapter 6. Ritual Significances
Chapter 7. Some Conclusions
Chapter 8. Some Questions and Answers
Bibliography
Index