The Dancing Dead

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The Dancing Dead is written by Walter E. A. van Beek and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199858152 (ISBN 10) and 9780199858156 (ISBN 13).

Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region.