عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
شماره کتابشناسی ملی
شماره
T642
زبان اثر
زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن
انگلیسی
عنوان و نام پديدآور
عنوان اصلي
Spirit Messengers, Divine Encounters: Practitioner Inhabitants of the Anlo-Ewe Spirit World
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor: Talamantez, Ines
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of California, Santa Barbara: United States -- California
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2012
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
628 Pages
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The dissertation is an anthropological study utilizing oral narrative, archival history, and sociological methods to examine the question of how the Anlo-Ewe people experience the divine and how these perceived human-divine relations affect 1) formation of identity, 2) community relationships, and 3) vocational selection and decision-making processes. The secondary question of the study explores the effects of globalization, technological advancement, and Christianization on 'traditional' Anlo-Ewe practices and community dynamics in southeastern Ghana. How the Anlo-Ewe spirit world influences, engages, and interconnects its practitioners is determined through examining the functions and structure of the Anlo-Ewe cosmological order; identifying the religio-social role of artists, mediums, diviners, and priestesses as spirit messengers; and interpreting the process and outcome of practitioners experiencing vodu, or divinity, individually and communally. Research was compiled from: court records, colonial documents, first-hand narratives and secondary resources; experiential data gathered from interviews with Christian and Anlo-Ewe Vodu practitioners; attendance at private initiation and community rites, public ceremonies, religious services, and funerals; and living at family compounds in Klikor, Nogokpo and Denu and at a shrine for priestesses-in-training in Ghana's Ketu South District. Findings show that indigenous practices are decreasing as western forms of Christian-influenced education are becoming more readily prescribed and available to school-age children. Anlo-Ewe services, community rites, and priestly schedules are being amended to match increasing global material access, technological advancement, and community expectations of the shifting perspectives of time. Constructions of identity, vocational and marital selection, and community relationships are likewise struggling between models of intra-community, or extended familial responsibility, and models based on the nuclear family or self-interest as primary, often shifting from localized expectations of economic and social interrelationship to a more protracted conception of personhood involving individualization, accusations of witchcraft, and capitalist models of success. The Vodu pantheon has adapted and transformed to match social experience: times of community upheaval invite greater numbers of personalized spirits adopted for individual means above collective purposes. Experiential elements of bodily engagement with divinity (vodu ), via dreams, divination, possession, community ceremony and initiation, remain vital to the stability of local community practices and perceptions of social cohesiveness.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion
موضوع مستند نشده
Cultural anthropology
موضوع مستند نشده
Sub Saharan Africa Studies
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Philosophy
اصطلاح موضوعی
religion and theology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
African traditional religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Ewe
اصطلاح موضوعی
Volta region
اصطلاح موضوعی
West Africa, Ghana
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Possession
اصطلاح موضوعی
Divination
اصطلاح موضوعی
Dreams, Initiation
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious experience
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Dietrich, Christi M.
نام شخص - ( مسئولیت معنوی درجه دوم )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Talamantez, Ines, supervisor
دسترسی و محل الکترونیکی
تاريخ و ساعت مذاکره و دسترسي
TL642.pdf
متن ارتباطي
لببیلبیلبیلیب
وضعیت انتشار
فرمت انتشار
e
اطلاعات رکورد کتابشناسی
نوع ماده
TL
کد کاربرگه
254359
اطلاعات دسترسی رکورد
سطح دسترسي
a
تكميل شده
Y
