Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 200 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
025321517X
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025334073X
Content:
"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 ac
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190) and index
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SACRED SITES AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER; CONTENTS; MAPS AND FIGURES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON EWE ORTHOGRAPHY; A HISTORY OUTLINED; INTRODUCTION: MANAGING THE MODERN; Chapter 1 - Notsie Narratives; Chapter 2 - Of Water and Spirits; Chapter 3 - Placing and Spacing the Dead; Chapter 4 - Belief and the Body; Chapter 5 - Contested Terrain; CONCLUSION: EXPLAINING CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ABANDONMENT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253340733
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter : A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana
Language:
English
