The World View of the Kalobari
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The World View of the Kalobari (fishing people in swampy delta, Nigeria)

Pg 306 (Horton 1962)

- Complicated system of cosmological beliefs

- 3 orders of existence postulated as lying behind the "place of the people" (the observable world of human beings and things)

- First level; world of spirits. Everything, living or object, has a spirit.

- When a person dies or object is broken, spirit and physical form have been separated.

- 3 categories of free spirits; ancestral spirits, village heroes, water people.

- A personal creator exists, who lays the design for everyone"s life

- "Great Creator" of the world; destiny

- Beliefs are never called into question; it is always something else which has interfered. The world is filled with accidents.

- 3 levels: Spirits- personal creator- Great Creator

Other Notes in this Category

1. Applying the concept of magic to ethnographies
2. Destruction of the Yanomamo (Davus 1980)
3. Gopalpur
4. The Aborigines
5. The Gopalpur
6. The Kwaio
7. The Trobrianders
8. The World View of the Kalobari
9. The Yanomamo

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