Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present
![Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present](https://ardhindie.com/assets/pdf.png)
DOWNLOAD
Download Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present
DOWNLOAD
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present written by Meera Venkatachalam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Anlo (African people) categories.
This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present
DOWNLOAD
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-10
Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present written by Meera Venkatachalam and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with History categories.
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.
Slavery In The Anlo Ewe Imagination
DOWNLOAD
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Slavery In The Anlo Ewe Imagination written by Meera Venkatachalam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Anlo (African people) categories.
Slavery In Memory
DOWNLOAD
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Slavery In Memory written by Meera Venkatachalam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ewe (African people) categories.
Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present
DOWNLOAD
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-10
Slavery Memory And Religion In Southeastern Ghana C 1850 Present written by Meera Venkatachalam and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with History categories.
This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Embodying Black Religions In Africa And Its Diasporas
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yolanda Covington-Ward
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-09
Embodying Black Religions In Africa And Its Diasporas written by Yolanda Covington-Ward and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-09 with Religion categories.
The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the dynamics of religious and racial identity among Brazilian Neo-Pentecostals; the significance of cloth coverings in Islamic practice in northern Nigeria; the ethics of socially engaged hip-hop lyrics by Black Muslim artists in Britain; ritual dance performances among Mama Tchamba devotees in Togo; and how Ifá practitioners from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and the United States join together in a shared spiritual ethnicity. From possession and spirit-induced trembling to dance, the contributors outline how embodied religious practices are central to expressing and shaping interiority and spiritual lives, national and ethnic belonging, ways of knowing and techniques of healing, and sexual and gender politics. In this way, the body is a crucial site of religiously motivated social action for people of African descent. Contributors. Rachel Cantave, Youssef Carter, N. Fadeke Castor, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Casey Golomski, Elyan Jeanine Hill, Nathanael J. Homewood, Jeanette S. Jouili, Bertin M. Louis Jr., Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Aaron Montoya, Jacob K. Olupona, Elisha P. Renne
Slavery And Its Legacy In Ghana And The Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rebecca Shumway
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Slavery And Its Legacy In Ghana And The Diaspora written by Rebecca Shumway and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with History categories.
Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading. The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana and its legacy for both Ghana and the descendants of people sold as slaves from the “Gold Coast” in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. The volume is structured to reflect four overlapping areas of investigation: the changing nature of slavery in Ghana, including the ways in which enslaved people have been integrated into or excluded from kinship systems, social institutions, politics, and the workforce over time; the long-standing connections forged between Ghana and the Americas and Europe through the transatlantic trading system and the forced migration of enslaved people; the development of indigenous and transnational anti-slavery ideologies; and the legacy of slavery and its ongoing reverberations in Ghanaian and diasporic society. Bringing together key scholars from Ghana, Europe and the USA who introduce new sources, frames and methodologies including heritage, gender, critical race, and culture studies, and drawing on archival documents and oral histories, Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora will be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative slavery, abolition and West African history.
An Ethnography Of A Vodu Shrine In Southern Togo
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eric Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-02-13
An Ethnography Of A Vodu Shrine In Southern Togo written by Eric Montgomery and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-13 with Religion categories.
In this book, Eric Montgomery and Christian Vannier provide an ethnographically informed text on the cultural meanings and practices surrounding the gods and metaphysics of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo. The authors approach this spirit possession and medicinal order through "shrine ethnography," understanding shrines as parts of sacred landscapes that are ecological, economic, political, and social. Giving voice to practitioners and situating shrines and Vodu itself into the history and political economy of the region make this text pertinent to the social changes and global relevance of Millennial Africa.
Searching For Sharing
DOWNLOAD
Author : Daniela Merolla
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Searching For Sharing written by Daniela Merolla and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Social Science categories.
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Does technology restrict, constraining the experience of an oral performance, or does it afford new openings for different aesthetic experiences? Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new eresources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture. This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices. A valuable contribution to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies. It is also important reading for museum and archive curators.
Christianity Islam And Orisa Religion
DOWNLOAD
Author : J.D.Y. Peel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016
Christianity Islam And Orisa Religion written by J.D.Y. Peel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the orisa. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions.