LEADER 03938nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910806869803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612062735 010 $a1-282-06273-5 010 $a0-253-10889-6 035 $a(CKB)111056485406270 035 $a(EBL)127720 035 $a(OCoLC)150645494 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000240466 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195291 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240466 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10266182 035 $a(PQKB)10185019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000308806 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12107220 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308806 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259646 035 $a(PQKB)11580339 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC127720 035 $a(OCoLC)50174775 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16858 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL127720 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002920 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206273 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485406270 100 $a20010814d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSacred sites and the colonial encounter $ea history of meaning and memory in Ghana /$fSandra E. Greene 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-21517-X 311 $a0-253-34073-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-190) and index. 327 $aIntro -- SACRED SITES AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND FIGURES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON EWE ORTHOGRAPHY -- A HISTORY OUTLINED -- INTRODUCTION: MANAGING THE MODERN -- Chapter 1 - Notsie Narratives -- Chapter 2 - Of Water and Spirits -- Chapter 3 - Placing and Spacing the Dead -- Chapter 4 - Belief and the Body -- Chapter 5 - Contested Terrain -- CONCLUSION: EXPLAINING CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ABANDONMENT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- About the Author. 330 $a"Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs... and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body." -- Emmanuel Akyeampong Sandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community. 606 $aAnlo (African people)$xReligion 606 $aAnlo (African people)$xCultural assimilation 606 $aSacred space$zGhana 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zGhana 607 $aGhana$xColonial influence 615 0$aAnlo (African people)$xReligion. 615 0$aAnlo (African people)$xCultural assimilation. 615 0$aSacred space 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects 676 $a966.7/004963374 700 $aGreene$b Sandra E.$f1952-$0906104 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806869803321 996 $aSacred sites and the colonial encounter$94023377 997 $aUNINA