Red Sea Folk Beliefs: A Maritime Spirit Landscape
The Red Sea brings together the coastal communities and seafarers of Africa and Arabia through a variety of folk beliefs and superstitions, which manifest something of a common tradition through time and space. This article explores a conceptual framework that might be called a "spiritscape,&qu...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Northeast African Studies. - Michigan State University Press, 2015. - 17(2017), 1, Seite 131-162 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2017
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Northeast African Studies |
| Schlagworte: | Physical sciences Behavioral sciences Applied sciences Arts Religion |
| Zusammenfassung: | The Red Sea brings together the coastal communities and seafarers of Africa and Arabia through a variety of folk beliefs and superstitions, which manifest something of a common tradition through time and space. This article explores a conceptual framework that might be called a "spiritscape," an amalgam of ideas and practices that embrace multiple layers of human and nonhuman relationships and interactions within the landscape and seascape of the Red Sea world. |
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| ISSN: | 15356574 |
| DOI: | 10.14321/nortafristud.17.1.0131 |