Memories of the slave trade : ritual and the historical imagination in Sierra Leone /: ritual and the historical imagination in Sierra Leone. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rosalind Shaw.
• Other Names: Shaw, Rosalind
• Contents: The Atlanticizing of Sierra Leone -- Spirit memoryscape -- Roads to life, roads to death: materializing memory through divination -- Diviners' knowledge, diviners' lives -- A thing under the water -- The hidden ritual process -- The production of witchcraft/witchcraft as production -- Cannibal transformations: experiencing colonialism in the Sierra Leone hinterland -- The politician and the diviner.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 306/.09664; Witchcraft -- Sierra Leone; Slave trade -- Sierra Leone; Slave trade; Witchcraft; Hexenglaube; Sklavenhandel; Magie; Hekserij; Slavenhandel; Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226764467
• Related ISBNs: 9780226751313; 9780226751320
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.