| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : managing the modern -- Notsie narratives -- Of water and spirits -- Placing and spacing the dead -- Belief and the body -- Contested terrain -- Conclusion : explaining cultural adaptation and epistemological abandonment. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"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 acc. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anlo (African people) -- Religion.
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Anlo (African people) -- Religion. |
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Anlo (African people) |
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Anlo (African people) -- Cultural assimilation.
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Assimilation (Sociology) |
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Sacred space -- Ghana.
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Sacred space. |
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Ghana. |
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Ghana.
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Human body -- Social aspects. |
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Ghana -- Colonial influence.
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Colonial influence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greene, Sandra E., 1952- Sacred sites and the colonial encounter. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002 025334073X (DLC) 2001004947 (OCoLC)47803375 |
| ISBN |
0253108896 |
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9780253108890 |
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1282062735 |
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9781282062733 |
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025334073X |
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9780253340733 |
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025321517X |
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9780253215178 |
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