Slavery, memory, and religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-present /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Venkatachalam, Meera, 1980- author.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 247 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The international African library ; 49 International African library ; 49.
Subject:	Anlo (African people) -- Religion. Cults -- Ghana. Collective memory -- Ghana. Slavery -- Ghana -- Religious aspects. Anlo (African people) -- Religion. Collective memory. Cults. Slavery -- Religious aspects. Ghana. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13453600

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ISBN:	9781316374948 1316374947 9781316257852 1316257851 9781316378946 1316378942 9781107108271 1316371948 9781316371947 1316375943 9781316375945 1316377946 9781316377949
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Other form:	Print version: Venkatachalam, Meera. Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-Present. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781316378946

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half title; Seriespage; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 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 Religion and Society in Early Modern Anlo, c. 1750-c. 1910; 6 Gods from the North, c. 1910-c. 1940; 7 'Yesu Vide, Dzo Vide': The Dynamics of Anlo Religion, c. 1940-c. 2010; 8 Conclusion: Ritual Servitude, Trans-Atlantic Conversations, and Religious Change; Bibliography; Index.

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