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The politics of religious change on the upper Guinea coast : iconoclasm done and undone /
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 farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh, UK :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | International African library ;
38. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Cassava Fields, Sacred Woods
- On ruins and landscape
- On African religion and iconoclasm
- living space as a remote area
- Ethnography as the art of being late
- Landlords, citizens and iconoclasts: introducing the actors and the events
- Ethnography and iconoclasm: a Rashomonian view
- 2. Rivers and Motorways
- Language and population on the Guinean coast
- language of the spirits
- Mangrove rice: a tale of two species
- river bank
- open road
- missing wood: Baga parents and Susu children
- 3. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Coastal Mangroves in Pre-Colonial Times
- Uncles and nephews: the logics of asymmetric settlement
- Landlords, strangers and spirits
- No room for slaves?
- Contested spiritscapes
- crown of Timbo: exploring pre-colonial political imagination
- 4. Chiefs, Customs and Territory: the Legacy of French Rule
- ^ On cultural fatigue
- delimitation of a 'Baga' territory
- Chiefs, taxes and strangers
- rise of Christianity
- Fula hegemony
- Revolt and takeover
- Despotism and political awareness
- burden of being Baga
- Conclusion
- 5. Running and Hiding: the End of Colonialism and the Arrival of the Iconoclasts
- Youth and dance: a prelude
- rise of Islam
- stranger and the end of death
- Spiritual encounters
- Spiritual encounters of a different kind
- Farewell to the Baga
- 6. Mande Tricksters and Transformations: from Iconoclastic Preachers to Iconoclastic Politicians
- marabout who came from the east
- Revisiting the spiritual encounters
- Routinised iconoclasm
- Once there were landlords
- On religious convergence
- 7. Surviving Iconoclasm
- From children's games to elders' secrets: the story of the alipne
- Excursus I: iconoclasm and the centripetality of knowledge
- ^ urban social form: the story of the ressortissants.