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Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter
A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana
by Sandra E. Greene
ISBN: 025334073X
ISBN-13: 9780253340733
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published date: 2002
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 200
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Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana
Greene, Sandra E
Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.: Indiana Univ Pr, 2002 Occasional pencil underlining and marginalia. Black cloth binding with gilt letteing on spine. Light shelf-wear to bottom spine.. Hardcover. Very Good + Binding. Illus. by Illustrations. NOT Ex-Library. ( more information) Offered by Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
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SACRED SITES AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana
Greene, Sandra E
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. xix, 200 pp. Chronology, illustrations, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. A finalist for the 2003 Herskovits Award. Examines how the colonial encounter reshaped landscapes of meaning and memory in Ghana. The author 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 accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket. 25 x 16 cm. ( more information) Offered by A Scholar's Tale Booksellers (United States)
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