Sacred sites and the colonial encounter a history of meaning and memory in Ghana - Greene, Sandra E. (Indiana University Press, 2002)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : managing the modern -- Notsie narratives -- Of water and spirits -- Placing and spacing the dead -- Belief and the body -- Contested terrain -- Conclusion : explaining cultural adaptation and epistemological abandonment
"Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs ... and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body."--Emmanuel AkyeampongSandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European acc