附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : managing the modern -- Notsie narratives -- Of water and spirits -- Placing and spacing the dead -- Belief and the body -- Contested terrain -- Conclusion : explaining cultural adaptation and epistemological abandonment.
摘要:"Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs ... and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body."--Emmanuel AkyeampongSandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European acc.
