TY  - JOUR
A1  - Müller-Kosack, Gerhard
T1  - The Dughwede in NE-Nigeria : montagnards interacting with the seasons
T2  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
N2  - We can conclude that the Dughwede calendar lasts for two seasonal years, marked by the bull festival as a culminating and turning point. All ritual and agricultural activities are interlinked and need to be seen comprehensively together with the social and cosmological order to understand the underlying cultural pattern. The year is dramatized throughout the seasons to keep the communication between the natural and spiritual forces, both creatively reflected in the individual person. The traditional world was kept in balance as a functional equilibrium over a period of time not known to us, but is now moving towards a process of transformation initiated by structural historical change. The first step towards change is the change of moral values which affects possibly first individuals and then groups. This encourages them to give up the traditional way of interacting with their environment. This process can be described as secularisation and leads to another quality of relationship between man and his natural environment. The same process can also be described as socio-economic change.
T3  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 - 08, 137 
Y1  - 1996
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1788
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35948
VL  - 8
SP  - 137
EP  - 165
PB  - SFB 268
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -