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- catalog abstract "Annotation Sandra 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 accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12517952.
- catalog coverage "Ghana Colonial influence.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Annotation Sandra 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 accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xix, 200 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sacred sites and the colonial encounter.".
- catalog identifier "025321517X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "025334073X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780253340733 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sacred sites and the colonial encounter.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Sacred sites and the colonial encounter.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana Colonial influence.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana.".
- catalog subject "966.7/004963374 21".
- catalog subject "Anlo (African people) Cultural assimilation.".
- catalog subject "Anlo (African people) Religion.".
- catalog subject "DT510.43.A58 G75 2002".
- catalog subject "Human body Social aspects Ghana.".
- catalog subject "Sacred space Ghana.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Sacred sites and the colonial encounter : a history of meaning and memory in Ghana / Sandra E. Greene.".
- catalog type "text".