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LEADER: 01635cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2005010909
003 DLC
005 20080704085147.0
008 050418s2005 inuab b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2005010909
020 $a0253346657 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0253218063 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aBL2480.T3$bA45 2005
082 00 $a299.6/835$222
100 1 $aAllman, Jean Marie.
245 10 $aTongnaab :$bthe history of a West African god /$cJean Allman and John Parker.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$cc2005.
300 $axi, 300 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
505 0 $aTongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna -- Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928 -- "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s -- From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa -- Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945 -- Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.
650 0 $aTallensi (African people)$xReligion.
650 0 $aTongnaab (African deity)$xCult$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aParker, John,$d1960-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005010909.html
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f3v6-aa