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The World View of the Kalobari (fishing people in swampy delta, Nigeria)

Pg 306 (Horton 1962)

  • Complicated system of cosmological beliefs
  • 3 orders of existence postulated as lying behind the "place of the people" (the observable world of human beings and things)
  • First level; world of spirits. Everything, living or object, has a spirit.
  • When a person dies or object is broken, spirit and physical form have been separated.
  • 3 categories of free spirits; ancestral spirits, village heroes, water people.
  • A personal creator exists, who lays the design for everyone"s life
  • "Great Creator" of the world; destiny
  • Beliefs are never called into question; it is always something else which has interfered. The world is filled with accidents.
  • 3 levels: Spirits- personal creator- Great Creator


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