Preliminary Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Ewe Orthography
A History Outlined
Introduction
1. Notsie Narratives
2. Of Water and Spirits
3. Placing and Spacing the Dead
4. Belief and the Body
5. Contested Terrain
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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How the colonial encounter reshaped landscapes of meaning and memory in Ghana.

About the Author

Sandra E. Greene is Associate Professor of African History at Cornell University. She is author of Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe and is working on a book on religion in the Atlantic slave trade. She is past-president of the African Studies Association.

Reviews

"This is a fascinating work that analyzes the colonial encounter through a nuanced examination of the realm of cognition and belief." --Emmanuel Akyeampong "Greene's work is an original, wide-ranging, and engaging scholarly contribution to the literature on colonialism and religious change in sub-Saharan Africa... Greene sheds light on the process of cultural interaction in a way which does not diminish African capacity and resiliency while acknowledging the power of Europeans to shape local discourse." --John H. Hanson "This is a fascinating work that analyzes the colonial encounter through a nuanced examination of the realm of cognition and belief... 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 "Greene's work is an original, wide-ranging, and engaging scholarly contribution to the literature on colonialism and religious change in sub-Saharan Africa... Greene sheds light on the process of cultural interaction in a way which does not diminish African capacity and resiliency while acknowledging the power of Europeans to shape local discourse." John H. Hanson " ... a remarkable piece of work."--James Gibbs, Univesity of the West of England in the LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN, No. 65, 2003