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Dancing with the Gods

Essays in Ga Ritual

By: Marion Kilson

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Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive analyses of verbal and non-verbal ritual action. While verbal ritual actions specify ideas pertinent to a particular rite, non-verbal ritual actions express more general concepts. Kilson's analyses show how the same motifs of non-verbal ritual action recur in sacred and secular Ga rites. Whenever and wherever such motifs occur, they convey the same basic underlying Ga concepts, thereby creating a unified conceptual network of belief that is the foundation of the Ga ritual system. The essays in this collection previously appeared in Anthropos, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Parabola, and Sextant.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761859977

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Is that Your Child?

Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

By: Marion Kilson,Florence Ladd

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Is that Your Child?

Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

By: Marion Kilson,Florence Ladd

Is that your child?" is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African American or European American, rearing children today or a generation ago, living in the city or in the suburbs, upper-middle-class or lower-middle-class. Social scientists Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd probe mothers' responses to this query and other challenges that mothers of biracial children encounter." "Organized into four chapters, the book begins with Kilson and Ladd's initial interview of one another, continues with an overview of the challenges and rewards of raising biracial children gleaned from their interviews with other mothers, presents profiles of mothers highlighting distinctive individual experiences of biracial parenting, and concludes with suggestions of positive biracial parenting strategies." "This book makes a unique contribution to the growing body of literature by and about biracial Americans. Although in the past twenty years biracial Americans like Rebecca Walker, June Cross, Barack Obama, and James McBride have written of their personal experiences and scholars like Kathleen Korgen, Maria Root, and Ruth Frankenberg have explored aspects of the biracial experience, none has focused on the experiences of a heterogeneous set of black and white mothers of different generations and socioeconomic circumstances as Kilson and Ladd do."--BOOK JACKET.

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Lexington Books

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0739127632

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Claiming Place

Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Marion Kilson

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Claiming Place

Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Marion Kilson

Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort between the hidden biracial generations of the past and the visible blended generations of the future. As individuals, they have variously dealt with their ambiguous status in American society; as a generation, they share common existential realities in relation to White culture. During the last decade of the 20th century public awareness of mixed race Americans increased significantly, in no small part because there has been a substantial increase in interracial marriages and offspring since 1960. This study, based on ethnographic interviews, provides an historical overview of the study of Biracial Americans in the social sciences, a sociological profile of project participants, sociocultural discussions of family and race as well as racial identity choices, and examinations of racial realities in adult lives and of recurrent systemic and personal life themes. The textual part of the book demonstrates the diversity of perception and experience regarding race and identity of these biracial young adults. The Epilogue not only reviews major findings pertaining to this transitional generation of Biracial Americans but discusses biraciality and the deconstruction of race in contemporary American society. An extensive bibliography of popular and scholarly sources concludes the book.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Dancing with the Gods

Essays in Ga Ritual

By: Marion Kilson

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Essays in Ga Ritual

By: Marion Kilson

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The Shell Money of the Slave Trade

By: Jan Hogendorn,Marion Johnson

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The Shell Money of the Slave Trade

By: Jan Hogendorn,Marion Johnson

A study of the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521541107

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Claiming Place

Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Marion Kilson

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Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

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Is that Your Child?

Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

By: Marion Kilson,Florence Ladd

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Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

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Marion Borgelt

A 15 Year Survey

By: Marion Borgelt,Glenis Israel

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Marion Borgelt

A 15 Year Survey

By: Marion Borgelt,Glenis Israel

Borgelt's work appeals to the senses at several levels. At the tactile level, she displays a refined technical mastery of the materials with which she works. At the visual level, meaning is conveyed through recurring abstract patterns such as the sphere and the spiral.

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Dancing with the Gods

Dancing with the Gods

Is that Your Child?

Is that Your Child?

Claiming Place

Claiming Place

Dancing with the Gods

Dancing with the Gods

The Shell Money of the Slave Trade

The Shell Money of the Slave Trade

Claiming Place

Claiming Place

Is that Your Child?

Is that Your Child?

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Marion Borgelt

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