{"title":"Vivacious and Sad Dances: Yala jama and yala paatey as pre- and post-burial celebrations of the Ga people in Ghana","authors":"Terry Ofosu","doi":"10.1080/13528165.2023.2321075","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the special funeral ceremony of contemporary Ga people in Ghana. It unpacks the culturally controversial practice that are referred to as yala jama and yala paatey (a coin...","PeriodicalId":45559,"journal":{"name":"PERFORMANCE RESEARCH","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PERFORMANCE RESEARCH","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2321075","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article investigates the special funeral ceremony of contemporary Ga people in Ghana. It unpacks the culturally controversial practice that are referred to as yala jama and yala paatey (a coin...
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Performance Research is a specialist journal that promotes a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in an expanding field of performance. Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope, its emphasis is on research in contemporary performance arts within changing cultures. Performance Research is published in English and welcomes submissions in other languages. The Editors encourage work that challenges boundaries between disciplines and media. Each issue contains articles, documents, interviews, reviews as well as illustrations and original artworks.