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ISBN: 0198151349 Year: 1972 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,
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ISBN: 9789052018669 9052018669 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bruxelles [etc.] PIE-Peter Lang
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Throughout history, oral cultures lacking the medium of writing have relied on secret cults and societies to keep the authoritative versions of their sacred compositions, originally passed on to them as myths of divine origins, alive and remembered.In this book, the author, after many years spent observing secret rites, presents different versions of the White Bagr mythical narrative, following the ritual calendar. These rites, which are found among the Dagara/Lobi societies in West Africa, form a crucial part of the year-long rites of initiation of selected neophytes into bagr society.In addition to giving a detailed ethnographic description of this society, its initiation rites and a bilingual version of their mythical narrations, the author seeks to explain how memory is constructed, retained and transmitted in orature, and what it takes to give a proper oration, without errors, slips of the tongue and deviation, as well as examining how the performance is critically received by bagr society and the Dagara people.
Dagaaba (African people) --- Religion --- Ritual --- Ghana --- Burkina Faso --- Secret societies --- Rituals --- Mythology [Dagaaba ] --- Dagara white bagr --- Mythology, Dagaaba
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ISBN: 9052012873 9789052012872 0820466484 9780820466484 Year: 2006 Volume: 3 Publisher: Bruxelles Bern [etc.] P.I.E.-Peter Lang
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In this volume, the author presents a version of Africa’s longest oral recitation of myth of origination, the black bagr myth found among the Dagara of Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso, and discusses in detail its historical and literary significance for the society. Hence, the author first outlines the historical conditions possibly responsible for the coming into existence of both the mythical narratives and the rites of initiation that accompany the narration; and then presents the literary frame and structure in which the black bagr narrative is composed.The rest of the book is a unique bilingual (Dagara and English) presentation of the black bagr narration recorded and viewed live from within a secret rite of initiation. The narration itself, similar to all black bagr ritual narrative sessions, lasted up to three hours and was performed without interruption by one speaker. The narrative content shows to what extent the rites achieve the double purpose of teaching the initiates culture knowledge and giving them new individual identities that will equip them for different social positions in life.
Afrikaanse filosofie --- Philosophie africaine --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- 913 --- culturele antropologie --- rituelen --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- culturele antropologie, land- en volkenkunde --- Dagaaba (Africa people) --- Dagaaba (African people) --- Dagaare language --- Folklore --- Mythology, Dagaaba. --- Religion. --- Mythology, Dagaaba --- Dagaaba mythology --- Mythology, Dagari --- Dagaari language --- Dagaba language --- Dagara language --- Dagari language --- Dagarti language --- Dagati language --- Dagatsi language --- Degati language --- Dogaari language --- Oti-Volta languages --- Dagara (African people) --- Dagari (African people) --- Dagari (African tribe) --- Dagati (African people) --- Lodagaa (African people) --- Ethnology --- Religion
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