Memories of the Slave Trade
Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
320 pages, 17 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9
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2002
Cloth $65.00
ISBN: 9780226751313
Published April 2002
Paper $26.00
ISBN: 9780226751320
Published April 2002
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Temne Orthography Introduction 1. The Atlanticizing of Sierra Leone 2. Spirit Memoryscape 3. Roads to Life, Roads to Death Materializing Memory through Divination 4. Diviners' Knowledge, Diviners' Lives 5. A Thing under the Water 6. The Hidden Ritual Process 7. The Production of Witchcraft/Witchcraft as Production 8. Cannibal Transformations Experiencing Colonialism in the Sierra Leone Hinterland 9. The Politician and the Diviner Conclusion: Remembering Modernity Notes Bibliography Index
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