Sacred void: spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya
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Spatial images of work and
ritual among the Giriama of Kenya
DAVID PARKIN
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Contents
List of illustrations page xii
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Space and religion 1
Three responses to Durkheim 3
Three understandings of space 7
Pilgrims and their absence 10
Outline of the argument 12
1 Fantasies of the west 16
Contrasting spaces 16
Witch-hunter from nearby, elders from afar (Case history 1) 25
Witch-finder and elders compared 30
Case summary 34
Conclusion 36
2 Western Kaya, sacred centre 37
The Kaya as sacred centre 37
The myth of political centralisation 47
From centre to dispersal 49
Powerful manifestations 52
Conclusion 56
3 View from the west: cattle and co-operation 58
Hiding the cattle 58
Cattle and clans 68
A governmental view: 1964-1985 (Case history 2) 69
Case implications 72
x Contents
Controlling the homestead 74
Surviving and thriving: the people of Miyani 76
Conclusion 82
4 From west to east: the works of marriage 84
The blessed and the unblessed 84
Moving east 87
Spreading the links 89
Centring the mother s brother 92
Shifting kin and fixed clans 97
Husbanding trade 99
Conclusion 103
5 Spanning west and east: dances of death 105
Scripting funerary rules 105
The homestead as spatial work 106
Affines and attendance 111
The burial and first funeral 112
The second funeral 127
Bad deaths 130
East-west differences 132
Conclusion 134
6 Alternative authorities: incest and fertility 136
Roaming signifiers and classificatory overlap 137
Case material 138
Summary of the case material 142
Setting up the tensions 144
Sheep 146
Hyena 151
Tyranny and tolerance: ideas of authority 156
Conclusion 158
7 Alternative selves: invasions and cures 160
Vulnerability 160
A medical hierarchy? 163
Invasions 168
Cures and government control 171
Doctors of seduction 173
Public formulae 175
Private poetry 177
Divinatory inventiveness 181
Contents xi
The eastern fingers of Islam 187
Conclusion 189
8 Coastal desires and the person as centre 192
Coastal complexity 192
From gift to gain 195
Spirit of desire 201
Ancestral personhood 205
Physical and metaphysical personhood 211
Conclusion 215
Conclusion 218
Semantic chains and shapes 218
The sacred as cleansing, clearing and expulsion 220
The sacred as imaginary space 225
The sacred as deferred centrality 227
Appendix 1 Three ecological zones and demographic features of
southern Kilifi District 232
Appendix 2 Giriama kinship and affinal terms 236
Appendix 3 Giriama cattle terms 239
Appendix 4 Giriama patri-clan structure 242
Bibliography 247
Index 254
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