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Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Steven M. Friedson is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>Remains of Ritual</i>, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life
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- Author
- Steven M. Friedson
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; Univ of Chicago Pr
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226265063
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Music, Science, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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