Writing and colonialism in northern Ghana : the encounter between the LoDagaa and "the World on Paper" /

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Main Author: Hawkins, Sean.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2002.
Series:Anthropological horizons ; 18.
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245 1 0 |a Writing and colonialism in northern Ghana :  |b the encounter between the LoDagaa and "the World on Paper" /  |c Sean Hawkins. 
260 |a Toronto ;  |a Buffalo :  |b University of Toronto Press,  |c c2002. 
300 |a xv, 468 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Anthropological horizons ;  |v 18 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-445) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Colonialism as an Encounter between "the World on Paper" and the World of Experience -- Pt. 1. Ways of Appropriating the LoDagaa -- 1. Maps and Narratives -- 2. Labor, Bodies, and Names -- Pt. 2. Political and Religious Ambiguities -- 3. Rewriting the Past -- 4. Reimagining God -- Pt. 3. The Colonization of Space -- 5. Suppressing Knowledge -- 6. Missionary Medicine and Colonial Money -- Pt. 4. From Social Practice to Rhetoric -- 7. Women, Marriage, and Adultery -- 8. Postcolonial Litigation of Personal Identities -- Conclusion: Writing, Blood, and the Politics of Legitimacy. 
650 0 |a Dagaaba (African people)  |z Ghana  |x Social conditions. 
651 0 |a Ghana  |x Colonial influence. 
650 0 |a Writing  |x Social aspects  |z Ghana. 
650 6 |a Dagari (Peuple d'Afrique)  |z Ghāna  |x Conditions sociales. 
651 6 |a Ghāna  |x Influence coloniale  |x Histoire. 
830 0 |a Anthropological horizons ;  |v 18. 
988 |a 20020912 
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