Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, C.1850-Present

ISBN-13: 9781107519169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 269 str.

Meera Venkatachalam

Opis

This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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. 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.