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The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast : Iconoclasm Done and Undone / Ramon Sarró.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 13 B/W illustrations 4 B/W line artContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748635153
  • 9780748636662
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 202.18096652 22 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2470.G8 S27 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps and photographs -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction: cassava fields, sacred woods -- 2 Rivers and motorways -- 3 Between a rock and a hard place: coastal mangroves in pre-colonial times -- 4 Chiefs, customs and territory: the legacy of french rule -- 5 Running and hiding: the end of colonialism and the arrival of the iconoclasts -- 6 Mande tricksters and transformations: from iconoclastic preachers to iconoclastic politicians -- 7 Surviving iconoclasm -- 8 Harlem city and the ancestral village: youth and the politics of culture today -- 9 Conclusion: iconoclasm undone -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635153');Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology.The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period.With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens.The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those with an interest in the anthropology of religion, iconoclasm, the history and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage.This book examines the historical complexity of the interface between Islam, tradition religions and Christianity in west Africa, and how this interface links with dramatic political changesIt gives a detailed ethnographic approach through which such complex history is unveiled and analysedIt presents a dialogue between the field findings, a long tradition of anthropology and the most recent anthropological debates"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps and photographs -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction: cassava fields, sacred woods -- 2 Rivers and motorways -- 3 Between a rock and a hard place: coastal mangroves in pre-colonial times -- 4 Chiefs, customs and territory: the legacy of french rule -- 5 Running and hiding: the end of colonialism and the arrival of the iconoclasts -- 6 Mande tricksters and transformations: from iconoclastic preachers to iconoclastic politicians -- 7 Surviving iconoclasm -- 8 Harlem city and the ancestral village: youth and the politics of culture today -- 9 Conclusion: iconoclasm undone -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635153');Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology.The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period.With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens.The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those with an interest in the anthropology of religion, iconoclasm, the history and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage.This book examines the historical complexity of the interface between Islam, tradition religions and Christianity in west Africa, and how this interface links with dramatic political changesIt gives a detailed ethnographic approach through which such complex history is unveiled and analysedIt presents a dialogue between the field findings, a long tradition of anthropology and the most recent anthropological debates"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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