Sacrifice among the Lodagaa and elsewhere
A comparative comment on implicit questions and explicit rejections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3944863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Goody (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 9-22 |
| Publication date | 1981-05-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0294-7080 • E-ISSN: 2268-1558 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/span.485 |
| OpenAlex | W1496880843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
For the persons involved, sacrifice is a formal act of communication with spiritual agencies. As the LoDagaa (Dagiri) myth of the Bagre shows, implicit questions are - even from this emic viewpoint - asked about the ways available to people for establishing this communication. A comparison of traditional rites in northern Ghana is made with how Islam, Christianity and Hinduism conceive of this communication. In the latter, which are "literate" religions, there is not only avoidance of blood sacrifice but also rejection of meat altogether, at least in holy contexts. In effect, an increase of asceticism, a rejection of the more concrete aspects of god-man communication, occurred long before the recent process of secularization
Asceticism · Emic and etic · Sacrifice · Secularization · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |