Sacred sites and the colonial encounter: a history of meaning and memory in Ghana
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Main Author: Greene, Sandra E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press ©2002
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 200 pages)
ISBN:0253108896
025321517X
025334073X
9780253108890
9780253215178
9780253340733

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