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02108nam a2200277 a 4500 |
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18834303 |
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161107s2015 ||||||||||||||||| || u |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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2015487212 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781107108271 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1107108276 (hbk) |
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| Classification number |
DT 510.43.A58 Ven |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Venkatachalam, Meera |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-present |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Meera Venkatachalam |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York |
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Cambridge University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xix, 247p. : ill. |
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The International African Library |
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| Volume/sequential designation |
49 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Co-published by International African Institute, London. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as 'Fofie', which derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the slave-holding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about their agency in slavery in the early twentieth century which they articulated through practices such as ancestor veneration, spirit possession, and by forging links with descendants of peoples they formerly enslaved. Conversion to Christianity, engagement with 'modernity', trans-Atlantic conversations with diasporan Africans, and citizenship of the postcolonial state coupled with structural changes within the religious system - which resulted in the decline in Fofie's popularity - gradually altered the moral emphases of legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the twentieth century progressed. |
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ANLO (AFRICAN PEOPLE) -RELIGION |
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Cults - Ghana |
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Slavery - Ghana - Religious aspects |
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Collective memory - Ghana |
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International African Institute |
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CBU-MAIN LIBRARY (Kitwe) |
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AVAILABLE |
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Nov 7, 2016 |
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Main Library Open Access Collection |