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020			_a9781107108271 (hbk)
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050	0	0	_aDT510.43.A58 _bVEN 2015
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100	1		_aVenkatachalam, Meera, _d1980- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSlavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-present / _cMeera Venkatachalam.
264		0	_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_axix, 247 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe International African library ; _v49
500			_aCo-published by International African Institute, London.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
520	8		_aBased on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as 'Fofie', which derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the slave-holding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about their agency in slavery in the early twentieth century which they articulated through practices such as ancestor veneration, spirit possession, and by forging links with descendants of peoples they formerly enslaved. Conversion to Christianity, engagement with 'modernity', trans-Atlantic conversations with diasporan Africans, and citizenship of the postcolonial state coupled with structural changes within the religious system - which resulted in the decline in Fofie's popularity - gradually altered the moral emphases of legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the twentieth century progressed.
650		0	_aAnlo (African people) _xReligion.
650		0	_aCults _zGhana.
650		0	_aCollective memory _zGhana.
650		0	_aSlavery _zGhana _xReligious aspects.
710	2		_aInternational African Institute, _eissuing body.
830		0	_aInternational African library ; _v49.
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