Libation
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6710-4 (ISBN)
This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and on behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to ancestors, to the Creator, to other divinities, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans affirm and re-establish Ma’at: cosmic harmony, balance, interconnection and interdependence within, between and among humans, the environment, the spirit world, and the Creator. The text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious time/space correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life, connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves across generations in different spaces and times. The methodology is at once both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary. The methods and techniques of history, linguistics, cultural studies, literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a comprehensive reconstruction, description and analysis of a ritual that has been antique for millennia, but has never become antiquated.
Kimani S. K. Nehusi, PhD, FHEA (UK). Currently Associate Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University and Research Associate, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. His research interests include Ancient Egypt and its relationship to living Afrika, the history and culture of the Afrikan world and the Caribbean as a history and culture sphere.
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Photographs in the Photospread
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Photographic Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hr qbHw: On Libation
Chapter 2. The Origins of Libation
Chapter 3. The Origins and Evolution of the Offering Complex
Chapter 4. On Our Sacred Ancestors
Chapter 5. Transmission across Space and Time
Chapter 6. Ritual Significances
Chapter 7. Some Conclusions
Chapter 8. Some Questions and Answers
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.01.2016 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 151 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 386 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7618-6710-4 / 0761867104 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-6710-4 / 9780761867104 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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