Book Description
This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107108276
This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Anlo (African people)
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Author : Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786614626
Imagining Vernacular Histories is centered on the idea of engaging with indigenous African cosmologies that signal at pluriversality. In conversation with Toyin Falola’s reading of the African pluriverse and his exploration of the idea of “ritual archives,” the contributors to this volume rethink the historical archive in search of vernacular histories. Simultaneously, they recognize the contributions from various other disciplines in pluralizing the term vernacular. The book brings together a wide range of topics, such as reflections on African historiography; the relationship between memory, history and literature; gender relations; and the construction of historical archives. While appropriating Falola’s conception of vernacular histories, the contributors collectively argue that pluriversality and ritual archives can potentially rescue African historical and creative scholarship from the sustained practices of epistemicide. Simultaneously, Imagining Vernacular Histories focuses on the emerging interdisciplinary conversations on constructing the pluriverse as well as on the geopolitics of knowledge production. Through a critical appreciation of Falola’s engagement with the ideas of postcoloniality, decolonizing epistemologies, and pluriversality, this book locates his scholarship in relation to postcolonial theory emerging from the Global South.
Author : Alice Bellagamba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 110732808X
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.
Author : Alexander Keese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9004307354
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
Author : Eric J. Montgomery
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 149858599X
The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern, and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The contributors to this collection examine the ways that memories of slavery have been internalized. Slavery and memory are assessed from multiple perspectives: as sets of ritual practices, community-based systems of spirit veneration, mechanisms of resistance and national pride, sacred languages informing personhood, and instruments for healing and well-being. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, religion, art, and linguistics.
Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031520262
Author : Eric Montgomery
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004341250
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.
Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2000-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826403964
Addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendents interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continued to affect the lives of descendents of slaves.The introductory essay explores an approach to the study of the African diaspora that looks outward from Africa and places the following chapters, written by leading aurthorities from Europe and North and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature.
Author : Anne Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2005-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0807055190
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"-share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory.