Marion Kilson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3660481 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marion Kilson |
| PRENOMES | Marion |
| SOBRENOME | Kilson |
| ASSINATURA | KILSON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | 1Radcliffe College, Mass., USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante
The Aesthetics of Action
Dried Millet Breaking
Words Are Sweet
The Kuranko. Dimensions of Social Reality in a West African Society
Proverbes et traditions des Bassars du Nord Togo
The Trickster in West Africa
Prayer and Song in Ga Ritual
Prayer and song are the principal verbal art forms of the Kpele cult of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana.1 Channelling communications between divinity and human beings, prayer and song are performed in all Kpele agricultural rites. While sharing significant attributes, performances of these expressive art forms also differ in important respects. The analysis of prayer and song performances in this paper seeks to identify some conceptual, forma…
Ifa Divination Poetry
Forms of Folklore in Africa. Narrative Poetic, Gnomic, Dramatic
The Structure of Ga Prayer
THE STRUCTURE OF GA PRAYER 1 BY MARION KILSON (Radcliffe College, Mass., USA) Despite the popularity of prayer in African oral traditions, few studies have been made of prayer as a literary form. As Ruth Finnegan notes in Oral Literature in Africa,2 most analyses of prayer have concentrated on ritual use and symbolism rather than on literary issues of structure and content. This paper at- tempts to contribute to this relatively unexplored and pot…
Royal Antelope and Spider
African Urban Kinsmen
Marriage among a Matrilineal Elite
African Urban Kinsmen
A Ghetto Takes Shape
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Veiling Words
Kpele Lala
African Urban Kinsmen
Women in African Traditional Religions
In approaching the topic of women in African traditional religions, several methodological issues immediately arise: how to define religion, how to sample religious systems, and how to cope with fragmentary information. Each of these issues demands a rather arbitrary decision which implies that any analysis based upon such decisions must be considered suggestive rather than conclusive. If one defines religion as beliefs and practices associated w…
Black Majority
The Status of Women in Higher Education
Black New Orleans, 1860-1880
Marginality and Identity
Women in African Traditional Religions
In approaching the topic of women in African traditional religions, several methodological issues immediately arise: how to define religion, how to sample religious systems, and how to cope with fragmentary information. Each of these issues demands a rather arbitrary decision which implies that any analysis based upon such decisions must be considered suggestive rather than conclusive. If one defines religion as beliefs and practices associated w…
African Urban Kinsmen
Kpele Lala
Taxonomy and Form in Ga Ritual
TAXONOMY AND FORM IN GA RITUAL1) BY MARION KILSON (Simmons College, Boston, U.S.A.) Almost fifty years ago in The Andaman Islanders, Radcliffe-Brown posed the problem of the relationship between expressive form and meaning in ritual. As a prelude to his analysis of Andaman ceremony, Radcliffe-Brown stated his assumption that "when the same or a similar custom is practised on different occasions it has the same or similar meaning in all of them." …
The Structure of Ga Prayer
THE STRUCTURE OF GA PRAYER 1 BY MARION KILSON (Radcliffe College, Mass., USA) Despite the popularity of prayer in African oral traditions, few studies have been made of prayer as a literary form. As Ruth Finnegan notes in Oral Literature in Africa,2 most analyses of prayer have concentrated on ritual use and symbolism rather than on literary issues of structure and content. This paper at- tempts to contribute to this relatively unexplored and pot…
African Urban Kinsmen
African Urban Kinsmen
The Status of Women in Higher Education
Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture
Libation in Ga Ritual1
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the anthropological analysis of religion, in general, and of ritual symbolism, in particular. 2) This paper is intended as a contribution to his growing body of literature. It presents a descriptive analysis of libation as a sacrificial act in order to elucidate certain ideas about the ordering of the universe and about the meaning of sacrifice in one West African society, the Ga of south…
Ethnology
Libation in Ga Ritual1
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the anthropological analysis of religion, in general, and of ritual symbolism, in particular. 2) This paper is intended as a contribution to his growing body of literature. It presents a descriptive analysis of libation as a sacrificial act in order to elucidate certain ideas about the ordering of the universe and about the meaning of sacrifice in one West African society, the Ga of south…
Libation in Ga Ritual
Taxonomy and Form in Ga Ritual
TAXONOMY AND FORM IN GA RITUAL1) BY MARION KILSON (Simmons College, Boston, U.S.A.) Almost fifty years ago in The Andaman Islanders, Radcliffe-Brown posed the problem of the relationship between expressive form and meaning in ritual. As a prelude to his analysis of Andaman ceremony, Radcliffe-Brown stated his assumption that "when the same or a similar custom is practised on different occasions it has the same or similar meaning in all of them." …
Number Words and Number Symbols
Ambivalence and Power
The Transformation of Eatonville's Ethnographer
Myth
Ambivalence and Power
Among the roles frequently played by women around the world, mediumship has received considerable attention 2). Recently in the anthropological literature, the association between spirit possession and femininity has been variously attributed to structural conflict either between the sexes or among women, especially co-wives 3). Although I think that these sociological explanations need not be mutually exclusive and may have considerable validity…
Kpele Lala. Ga Religious Songs and Symbols
Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture
Kpele Lala
Marginality and Identity
Black New Orleans, 1860-1880
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Veiling Words
Kpele Lala
African Urban Kinsmen
Women in African Traditional Religions
In approaching the topic of women in African traditional religions, several methodological issues immediately arise: how to define religion, how to sample religious systems, and how to cope with fragmentary information. Each of these issues demands a rather arbitrary decision which implies that any analysis based upon such decisions must be considered suggestive rather than conclusive. If one defines religion as beliefs and practices associated w…
Black Majority
The Status of Women in Higher Education
African Urban Kinsmen
Marriage among a Matrilineal Elite
African Urban Kinsmen
A Ghetto Takes Shape
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