- Title
- Cosmological efficacy and the politics of Sacred Place: Soli Rainmaking in contemporary Zambia
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147482
- Identifier
- vital:38642
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_a_00163
- Description
- In this article I analyze cosmological efficacy in light of the politicization and apparent secularization of contemporary annual ceremonies in Zambia, south-central Africa, which are framed by scholars as neotraditional (Lentz 2001), folklorized (van Binsbergen 1994), or retraditionalized (Gould 2005:3, 6) events. My term “festivalization” registers the formalization of Zambian performances such as rituals, harvest festivals, inaugurations, and initiations as annual festival events, but does not imply a pejorative attitude towards cultural change and so-called inauthenticity, as the words “folklorization” or “retraditionalization” seem to do.
- Format
- 18 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African arts
- Relation
- Simbao, R., 2014. Cosmological Efficacy and the Politics of Sacred Place: Soli Rainmaking in Contemporary Zambia. African arts, 47(3), pp.40-57.
- Relation
- African arts volume 47 number 3 40 57 July 2014 1937-2108
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the African Arts Statement (https://0-www.jstor.org.wam.seals.ac.za/journal/africanarts)
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