Slavery in the Anlo-Ewe Imagination
Author | : Meera Venkatachalam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Anlo (African people) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Meera Venkatachalam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Anlo (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Meera Venkatachalam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107108276 |
This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Author | : Meera Venkatachalam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107519169 |
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 on legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the twentieth century progressed.
Author | : Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-08-17 |
Genre | : 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 | : Alexander Keese |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : 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 | : Alice Bellagamba |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 587 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : 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 | : Eric Montgomery |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2019-01-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 149858599X |
Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora is the first comprehensive ethnographic and historical study of slavery and its outcomes in numerous geographic contexts. The contributors to this collection traverse region, theme, and time to construct a book of great scale and scope.
Author | : Garry L. Hagberg |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031520262 |
Author | : Eric Montgomery |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-02-13 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000-09-13 |
Genre | : 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.