LEADER 03475nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910784666703321 005 20240201010652.0 010 $a9786612072741 010 $a1-282-07274-9 010 $a0-253-11183-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362357 035 $a(EBL)278893 035 $a(OCoLC)476022184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000260018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210710 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191362 035 $a(PQKB)11195460 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC278893 035 $a(OCoLC)607762495 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16716 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL278893 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10149915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207274 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362357 100 $a20050418d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTongnaab$b[electronic resource] $ethe history of a West African god /$fJean Allman and John Parker 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-21806-3 311 $a0-253-34665-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index. 327 $aTongnaab 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aTallensi (African people)$xReligion 606 $aTongnaab (African deity)$xCult$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWitchcraft$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWitchcraft$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aEthnography. 615 0$aTallensi (African people)$xReligion. 615 0$aTongnaab (African deity)$xCult$xHistory 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory 676 $a299.6/835 700 $aAllman$b Jean Marie$0858076 701 $aParker$b John$f1960-$01502226 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784666703321 996 $aTongnaab$93729863 997 $aUNINA