Tongnaab :
Allman, Jean Marie.
Tongnaab : the history of a West African god / Jean Allman and John Parker. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005. - xi, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
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.
0253346657 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253218063 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005010909
Tallensi (African people)--Religion.
Tongnaab (African deity)--Cult--History--20th century.
Witchcraft--History--Africa, West--20th century.
Witchcraft--History--Africa, West--19th century.
BL2480.T3 / A45 2005
299.6/835
Tongnaab : the history of a West African god / Jean Allman and John Parker. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005. - xi, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
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.
0253346657 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253218063 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005010909
Tallensi (African people)--Religion.
Tongnaab (African deity)--Cult--History--20th century.
Witchcraft--History--Africa, West--20th century.
Witchcraft--History--Africa, West--19th century.
BL2480.T3 / A45 2005
299.6/835