Tongnaab : the history of a West African god

Tongnaab : the history of a West African god / Jean Allman and John Parker.

In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and central plains of the south. Using a wide rang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allman, Jean Marie
Other Authors: Parker, John, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
1800 - 1999
Tallensi (African people) > Religion.
Tongnaab (African deity) > Cult > History > 20th century.
Witchcraft > Africa, West > History > 20th century.
Witchcraft > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Tallensi (African people) > Religion
Witchcraft
Goden.
Hekserij.
Tallensi.
West Africa
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Tongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna
  • Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928
  • "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s
  • From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa
  • Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945
  • Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.

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