Ritual and Environment
The Mosit Ceremony of the Ethiopian Me'En People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5012128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Abbink (0000-0003-1383-7849, 1(University of Nijmegen and African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-190 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006695x00182 |
| OpenAlex | W2001825398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
n\tThis essay deals with the relation between ritual behaviour and environmental conditions in an African rural society, that of the South-East Surmic (Nilo-Saharan)-speaking Me'en people, a group of 'tribal' cultivators in Käfa region, Ethiopia. The study attempts to integrate 'ideational' and material-environmental elements, in order to explain how meaning in ritual is constituted in the dialectic between human action and environmental conditions. For this purpose, a text of the 'mósit', a central ritual of the Me'en, is presented and discussed. The author looks at the significance of environmental referents in the ritual acts and words, and at how the language and the context of the 'mósit' reflect social and reproductive relations within Me'en society. The aim is an explanatory account of the 'mósit' as a religious ritual system. The unifying theoretical perspective which informs this analysis is derived from the theory of E.T. Lawson and R.N. MacCauley (1990), which advocates a 'competence'-approach to religious ritual behaviour
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |