The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast : : Iconoclasm Done and Undone /

The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast : : Iconoclasm Done and Undone / / Ramon Sarró.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635153');Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology.The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Sarró, Ramon,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:International African Library : IAL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 4 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of maps and photographs
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the author
  • Glossary
  • 1 Introduction: cassava fields, sacred woods
  • 2 Rivers and motorways
  • 3 Between a rock and a hard place: coastal mangroves in pre-colonial times
  • 4 Chiefs, customs and territory: the legacy of french rule
  • 5 Running and hiding: the end of colonialism and the arrival of the iconoclasts
  • 6 Mande tricksters and transformations: from iconoclastic preachers to iconoclastic politicians
  • 7 Surviving iconoclasm
  • 8 Harlem city and the ancestral village: youth and the politics of culture today
  • 9 Conclusion: iconoclasm undone
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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