God, shrines, and problem-solving among the Anufo of Northern Ghana:
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Jon P Kirby
God, Shrines, and Problem-solving
among the Anufo
of Northern Ghana
Dietrich Reimer Verlag • Berlin
Table of Contents
Preface 11
Acknowledgements 13
Notes on the Anufo Orthography 15
Introduction 17
I An Introduction to the Anufo of Ghana 21
1 Nalori 21
2 History 33
3 Social structure of the Nalori Anufo today 44
4 Anufo religion and the use of shrines in problem-solving 49
II The Anufo Spiritual Universe 53
1 Spiritual agents 53
2 Shrines 66
3 Shrine locations 74
4 Custodians and congregations 75
III Religion as Problem-solving 81
1 The concept of life-predicament 81
2 The concept of life-course 82
3 Value systems 82
4 Value systems in conflict 85
5 Balancing the life-predicament 86
6 The Anufo experience of misfortune 88
7 Balancing the life-predicament through sacrifice 93
IV Oracles and Divination 105
A Types of Divination 105
1 Oracles and divination defined 106
2 Varieties and tasks of oracles 106
3 Varieties and tasks of divination Ill
B Cowrie-Divination Analysis 127
1 Symbols of cowrie-divination 127
2 Categories of cowrie-divination 130
3 Interpretation of cowrie-divination 133
4 Role of the diviner 142
6 Table of Contents
t- 5 Explanations of fault 149
6 Divination as the gateway to religious practice 150
V Case Study of a Terminal Illness 155
1 Atifala's problem 155
2 Working toward a solution from the present 162
3 The spirit guardian shrine as last resort 170
4 Ultimate appeal to God 174
5 Conclusion 176
VI nyeme, the Guardian of Fate 179
A Symbols 179
1 Introduction to nyeme (shrine to the High God) 179
2 Occasions for nyeme rituals 180
3 Dominant symbols of the nyeme shrine 180
B Maturity and Fate 183
1 Maturation, personhood, and fertility 183
2 Personhood 186
3 Fertility 193
4 nyeme the guide to maturity 199
C Structural and Functional Analysis 200
1 How a bad fate is changed: the Nyeme nkaali myth 200
2 New possibility to obtain a good fate 201
3 Obstructions to a good fate 204
4 Renegotiating fate 208
5 Conclusion 213
VII Nyeme, the Ambiguous High God and Spirit Guardian 219
1 Absence of the High God cult 220
2 The influence of Islam 222
3 Comparison and contrast between the High God and the
spirit guardian 223
4 Points of ambiguous identity 224
5 God's distance 225
6 Function of ambiguity 233
VIII Concluding Reflections 239
1 Problem-solving dynamic of Anufo religion 239
2 Religious pluralism 239
3 Achieving a good fate 242
4 Individual versus society 244
Table of Contents 7 t;
5 Appealing to the unenshrined God as the ultimate ploy in
problem-solving 245
6 God and society 246
Appendices 249
1 New dates for the chiefs of Mango 249
2 Nalori villages by dominant Anufo clan membership 250
3 The Anufo lunar calendar 253
4 A comparison of Anufo, Nupe, Yoruba, and Igala sanddivi-
nation symbols 254
5 Visual vocabulary of Anufo divination 257
6 Notes from an attitudinal survey 264
7 A text from the fonio festival 266
8 Renewal of Chempono's nyeme shrine 267
9 Informing the ancestors of the making of Atifala's nyeme
shrine 270
10 Text for the burying of the blood ceremony 271
11 The Nyeme nkaali myth as told by Kobina 273
Glossary 275
Tables, Figures, and Maps 283
Bibliography 305
Index 327
Photos 353 |
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