Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter - A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana

Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments

A Note on Ewe Orthography

A History Outlined

Introduction

1. Notsie Narratives

2. Of Water and Spirits

3. Placing and Spacing the Dead

4. Belief and the Body

5. Contested Terrain

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Sandra E. Greene is Associate Professor of African History at Cornell University. She is author of Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe and is working on a book on religion in the Atlantic slave trade. She is past-president of the African Studies Association.

Summary

How the colonial encounter reshaped landscapes of spiritual meaning and memory in Ghana.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra E Greene, Sandra E. Greene, Greene Sandra E
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2002
• EAN: 9780253215178
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21517-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 238 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories