Keeping Time: Prayers and Social Vitality in the Ashanti Adaε Festival.
In African traditional systems, while culture provides a bond of social vitality and cohesion, prayer connects the living with the sacred. This study closely examines prayer performances during the Adaε festival of the Asante people of Ghana as a mode of keeping time through their renewals of inhere...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 469 - 484 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2024
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