"The dean of Mandara Mountains anthropology has applied a 'dwelling' approach to the rich, 'thick,' descriptive materials he has been gathering among the Kapsiki over four decades. The resulting Dancing Dead is a deeply satisfying exegesis of an imagistic religion, an original and outstanding contribution to religious studies and an ethnographic masterpiece. His insights constantly illuminate my own data on the neighboring Sukur." --Nicholas David, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Calgary