| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 247 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The international African library ; 49
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International African library ; 49.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Anlo (African people) -- Religion.
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Anlo (African people) -- Religion. |
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Anlo (African people) |
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Cults -- Ghana.
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Cults. |
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Ghana. |
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Collective memory -- Ghana.
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Slavery -- Ghana -- Religious aspects.
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Slavery. |
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Collective memory. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West. |
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Slavery -- Religious aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Venkatachalam, Meera. Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-Present. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781316378946 |
| ISBN |
9781316374948 (electronic book) |
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1316374947 (electronic book) |
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9781316257852 (electronic book) |
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1316257851 (electronic book) |
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9781316378946 |
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1316378942 |
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9781107108271 |
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1316371948 |
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9781316371947 |
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1316375943 |
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9781316375945 |
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1316377946 |
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9781316377949 |
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