Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone Tapa dura - 2002 - 1st Edición
de Rosalind Shaw
Primera línea
When Edward Ball, the descendant of slave owners in South Carolina, traced the history of the white and African sides of his family, he found that his ancestors had bought some of the human cargo of slave ships from Sierra Leone (1998: 420).
Descripción de contraportada
In a work that challenges recurring claims that Africans felt (and still feel) no sense of moral responsibility concerning the sale of slaves, Rosalind Shaw traces memories of the slave trade in Temne-speaking communities in Sierra Leone. While the slave-trading past is rarely remembered in explicit verbal accounts, it is often made vividly present in such forms as rogue spirits, diviners' visions, the imagery of divination techniques, and accounts of an invisible city of witches whose affluence was built on the theft of human lives.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialism, and the country's ten-year rebel war. These ritual and visionary memories make hitherto invisible realities manifest, forming a prism through which past and present mutually configure each other.Detalles
- Título Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
- Autor Rosalind Shaw
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 320
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
- Fecha de publicación April 8, 2002
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226751313 / 0226751317
- Peso 1.38 libras (0.63 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.3 x 6.32 x 0.94 pulgadas (23.62 x 16.05 x 2.39 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: West Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Witchcraft - Sierra Leone, Slave trade - Sierra Leone
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2001004442
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.096
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Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
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