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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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    A Paperback / softback by Steven M. Friedson

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226265056, 978-0226265056
      ISBN10: 0226265056
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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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