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A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices 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.

Remains of Ritual Northern Gods in a Southern

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780226265049, 978-0226265049
    ISBN10: 0226265048
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    Book Synopsis
    A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices 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.

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