Shrines in Africa : history, politics, and society /
Explores how African shrines, in their diverse forms, are more than just points of worship - they are powerful symbols of ethnic solidarity, group cohesion, and knowledge about the landscape. This book shows how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, and symbolically articulate a society&...
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada :
University of Calgary Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Africa, missing voices series ;
no. 5. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Pots, stones, and potsherds : shrines in the Mandara Mountains (North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria) / Judith Sterner (Alberta College of Art and Design), Nicholas David (University of Calgary) -- The archaeology of shrines among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana : materiality and interpretive relevance / Timothy Insoll (University of Manchester), Benjamin Kankpeyeng (University of Ghana, Legon), Rachel MacLean (University of Manchester) -- Earth shrines and autochthony among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana / Allan Charles Dawson (McGill Unisversity/STANDD) -- Shrines and compound abandonment : ethnoarchaeological observations in Northern Ghana / Charles Mather (University of Calgary) -- Constructing ritual protection on an expanding settlement frontier : earth shrines in the Black Volta region / Carola Lentz (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz) -- Moroccan saints' shrines as systems of distributed knowledge / Doyle Hatt (University of Calgary). | |
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