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The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast : Iconoclasm Done and Undone /
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635153');Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology.The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | International African Library : IAL
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and photographs
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction: cassava fields, sacred woods
- 2 Rivers and motorways
- 3 Between a rock and a hard place: coastal mangroves in pre-colonial times
- 4 Chiefs, customs and territory: the legacy of french rule
- 5 Running and hiding: the end of colonialism and the arrival of the iconoclasts
- 6 Mande tricksters and transformations: from iconoclastic preachers to iconoclastic politicians
- 7 Surviving iconoclasm
- 8 Harlem city and the ancestral village: youth and the politics of culture today
- 9 Conclusion: iconoclasm undone
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index