03475nam 2200673 a 450 991078466670332120240201010652.097866120727411-282-07274-90-253-11183-8(CKB)1000000000362357(EBL)278893(OCoLC)476022184(SSID)ssj0000260018(PQKBManifestationID)11210710(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260018(PQKBWorkID)10191362(PQKB)11195460(MiAaPQ)EBC278893(OCoLC)607762495(MdBmJHUP)muse16716(Au-PeEL)EBL278893(CaPaEBR)ebr10149915(CaONFJC)MIL207274(EXLCZ)99100000000036235720050418d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTongnaab[electronic resource] the history of a West African god /Jean Allman and John ParkerBloomington Indiana University Pressc20051 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-21806-3 0-253-34665-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.Tongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna -- Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928 -- "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s -- From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa -- Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945 -- Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.Tallensi (African people)ReligionTongnaab (African deity)CultHistory20th centuryWitchcraftAfrica, WestHistory20th centuryWitchcraftAfrica, WestHistory19th centuryEthnography.Tallensi (African people)Religion.Tongnaab (African deity)CultHistoryWitchcraftHistoryWitchcraftHistory299.6/835Allman Jean Marie858076Parker John1960-1502226MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784666703321Tongnaab3729863UNINA