Memories of the Slave Trade
Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
<div>In a work that challenges recurring claims that Africans felt (and still feel) no sense of moral responsibility concerning the sale of slaves, Rosalind Shaw traces memories of the slave trade in Temne-speaking communities in Sierra Leone. While the slave-trading past is rarely remembered in explicit verbal accounts, it is often made vividly present in such forms as rogue spirits, diviners' visions, the imagery of divination techniques, and accounts of an invisible city of witches whose affluence was built on the theft of human lives.<br><br>Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-226-75132-0
- EAN: 9780226751320
- Produktnummer: 1484267
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H22.1 cm x B28.6 cm x D2.1 cm 534 g
- Gewicht: 534
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Rosalind Shaw is associate professor of sociocultural anthropology at Tufts University. She is coeditor of Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis and Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa.
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