Meera Venkatachalam

Slavery, Memory and Religion in southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781107519169
• ISBN-10: 1107519160
• Artikelnr.: 49138045

Autorenporträt

Meera Venkatachalam was awarded her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007. She has conducted postdoctoral work at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. Her writing has appeared in Africa (journal of the International African Institute) and the Journal of African History.

Inhaltsangabe

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.