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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.Description: xi, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0253346657 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253218063 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.6/835 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2480.T3 A45 2005
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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.
Item type: Book
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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.

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