Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A Hist. Greene<|

Sacred Sites and the Colonial EncounterA History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana\nAuthor(s): Sandra E. Greene\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253215178, 978-0253215178\nSynopsis\n\""Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs . . . and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body.\"" \n Emmanuel Akyeampong\n Sandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body i.