{"product_id":"remains-of-ritual-steven-m-friedson-9780226265049","title":"Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemains of Ritual\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven M. Friedson's second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete\/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality--in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson's careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven M. Friedson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226265048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226265049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010","brand":"Steven M. Friedson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086399680767,"sku":"9780226265049","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd9ec770-ae4d-4bab-9bf3-b2b940dd8e29.jpg?v=1769094459","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remains-of-ritual-steven-m-friedson-9780226265049","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}