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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kean Gibson |
ISBN: | 0791449599 9780791449592 0791449602 9780791449608 |
OCLC Number: | 45493263 |
Description: | xvii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Peoples and Religions of Guyana -- Faithist Church and Spirit Beliefs -- Comfa Ceremonies -- Comfa as an African Derivation -- Comfa as Social Process -- The Continuums of Guyanese Creole and Guyanese Comfa. |
Responsibility: | Kean Gibson. |
Abstract:
"Kean Gibson examines the Guyanese religion known as "Comfa." Reflecting the socio-cultural history of Guyana, Comfa shows influences of European and Asian cultures and religions in an essentially African framework. Gibson compares the variation exemplified in Comfa with the Guyanese Creole language and challenges the continuum theory of Creole linguistics, which predicts that the Creole language will evolve to become English. Gibson also explores the implications of both forms of social behavior for the notion of identity in a multicultural community."--Jacket.
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