Details my latest trip back home to Iowa, where music, food, family and fun abound in plenty.
Posts Tagged as ‘ritual’
June 18, 2009
Travels With Nakayima, Part 9: Kalagala Falls, Uganda
24 April, 2009
I don’t have an abundance of stories from this particular trip, and the last post was long, so I’ve opted for more of a photo-essay on this one. Enjoy!
Another tourist site without any tourists. People do come here for rafting, and for good reason as you’ll see, but with nowhere to stay, it’s [...]
June 17, 2009
Travels With Nakayima, Part 8: Kookola, Uganda
15-16 April, 2009
If Mubende was an exercise in long-distance futility and frustration of purpose, what I am about to share will reveal the consolation I feel from two much more useful days following that trip. We set off to the east on a trip much like the other trips I’ve taken with Nakayima. The taxi [...]
June 15, 2009
Travels With Nakayima, Part 6: Ttanda, Uganda
9 April, 2009: At Death’s Door in Ttanda, Uganda
In the beginning, according to the Baganda, there was a single man named Kintu. He roamed the earth with his cow, but he was lonely. When he looked to Ggulu (lit. “the heavens” or Tonda, lit. “Creator”) for help, he noticed that Ggulu had a daughter named [...]
June 3, 2009
Travels with Nakayima, Part 4: Buyego and Kungu, Uganda
6 April 2009: Buyego and Kungu, Uganda
Today we’re on our way to Buyego, a town in Luweero district north of Kampala. There’s a shrine for Mulangira (prince) Kawumpuli there, a Ganda prince who was born with no arms or legs. As with many of the other shrines we’ve visited in Buganda, the boda-boda drivers in [...]
May 23, 2009
Travels With Nakayima, part 3: Ndejje
28 March 2009 (later that day): Ndejje, Uganda
Nakayima and I linked up this morning with Nakigozi Nabawanuka at a place called Ndejje. I must admit that until I knew we were on our way to Bakka, I didn’t want to leave this place. The main ssabo or shrine had captured my curiosity with its abundance [...]
January 25, 2009
Ritual and Expressive Culture
Public service announcement: those of you familiar with my travel patterns in Uganda know that I post in clusters because that’s what my internet access allows. Thanks for sticking with me despite the sporadic nature of my posting habits. Since I know many of my readers are new to the blogosphere, let me just say [...]
June 4, 2008
Yep, I’m a church musician
I don’t normally write about religion, but I do specialize in music and ritual in my research. I definitely don’t blog about my personal beliefs either (that’s why they call them personal), so let’s just say it took a couple weeks’ worth of contemplation before I finally decided to put this post out there. [...]
