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Rosalind Shaw

Memories of the Slave Trade

Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone

320 pages, 17 halftones, 1 table  6 x 9  © 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
Subjects



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