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Memories of the slave trade : ritual and the historical imagination in Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw

Catalog Data

Author:
Shaw, Rosalind  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Sierra Leone
Date:
2002
C2002
Notes:
Reviewed by William Reno in African studies review (New Brunswick, NJ) 46 (1) April 2033, pages 198-199. (DT1.A1 A26 AFA)
AFA copy 39088009921883 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Ruth O. Selig in Memory of Rollyn Osterweis Krichbaum.
Contents:
The Atlanticizing of Sierra Leone -- Spirit memoryscape -- Roads to life, roads to death: materializing memory through divination -- Diviners' knowledge, diviners' lives -- A thing under the water -- The hidden ritual process -- The production of witchcraft/witchcraft as production -- Cannibal transformations: experiencing colonialism in the Sierra Leone hinterland -- The politician and the diviner
Topic:
Witchcraft  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_677903