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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Meera VenkatachalamPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Volume: 49 Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.410kg ISBN: 9781107519169ISBN 10: 1107519160 Pages: 269 Publication Date: 21 December 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Ghosts of slavery?; 2. The Anlo-Ewe: portrait of a people; 3. The dance of Alegba: Anlo-Ewe religion; 4. Slavery in the Anlo imagination; 5. Early modern Anlo, c.1750–1910; 6. Gods from the north, c.1910–40; 7. Yesu vide, dzo vide, c.1940–90; 8. Revisiting slavery.Reviews'Engaging, logically structured and based on impressive ethnography, this [book] makes an important contribution to the existing scholarly literature on the religion and belief of the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo and more broadly to an emerging history of religious change in West Africa that seeks to go beyond the established narrative of conversion.' John Parker, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 'Meera Venkatachalam offers an informative analysis of the memory of slavery in Anlo (Ghana) as embedded in various ritual practices. She provides an excellent discussion of ritual as memory, and rituals as historically created processes.' Sandra E. Greene, author of Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter and West African Narratives of Slavery 'Meera Venkatachalam's book is an involving account of the historical contingencies and complexities of belief among the Anlo-Ewe of southeastern Ghana. Her subject is the moral imaginary of Anlo-Ewe people since the 1850s in their evolving view of their own historical agency in, and responsibility for, slavery and slave-holding. This is a study of the intricacies of memory, but in a documented historical context that is still all too scarce in African studies. The book is lucidly written, intriguing, in places compelling, and always thought-provoking. The author is to be congratulated on this finely honed study.' Tom McCaskie, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Author InformationMeera Venkatachalam was awarded her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007. She has conducted postdoctoral work at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. Her writing has appeared in Africa (journal of the International African Institute) and the Journal of African History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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