Death and the Ancestors
Title | Death and the Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Goody |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136528849 |
Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services. First published in 1962.
Death, Property and the Ancestors
Title | Death, Property and the Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Goody |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Dagaaba (African people) |
ISBN |
Death, Property and the Ancestors : a Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa
Title | Death, Property and the Ancestors : a Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Goody, John Rankine |
Publisher | Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Dagaaba (African people) |
ISBN |
Death, Property and the Ancestors. A Study of the Martuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa. [With Plates and a Bibliography.].
Title | Death, Property and the Ancestors. A Study of the Martuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa. [With Plates and a Bibliography.]. PDF eBook |
Author | John Rankine Goody |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Tarlow |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 870 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199569061 |
This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.
Tongnaab
Title | Tongnaab PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Allman |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2005-11-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253111838 |
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium, Edinburgh
Title | Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium, Edinburgh PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme JR Erskine |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2016-05-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784913588 |
Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium held in Edinburgh, organised to reflect three general themes (migration/interaction, material culture and the built environment)