Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Dissertation note:
Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1997
DDC:
390.096711
Keywords:
Matakam
;
Ritual
;
Kamerun
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
The Way of the Beer analyses how Mafa re-enact their history in the ritual transfer of sorghum beer from junior to senior members of their society. Beer is the "Eucharist" of Mafa religion, standing for the linkage between God, the ancestors, the fertility of the living and the agricultural land. The ritual sequences in which beer is exchanged and offered at family and community shrines are an encoding of settlement history. ...
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-30348