Research Catalog

Title

Continuity and change in a West Africa society : globalization's impact on the Sisala of Ghana / Eugene L. Mendonsa.

Author

Mendonsa, Eugene L.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2001.

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Details

Description

xiii, 425 p. : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Sisala (African people) > Economic conditions
• Sisala (African people) > Social conditions
• Sustainable development > Ghana

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-392) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Old and New in Sisalaland -- Some Theory about the Distillation of the Political Economy -- My View of Culture -- Sisala History: War, Trade and Chiefs -- Governance: In the Beginning -- The Coming of the Slave Wars and Trade -- The Sisala in History: Local and Global Influences -- Sipaalaaraa and the Rise of Wartime Leadership -- Nucleation and the Defense of Villages -- Summary: The Influence of Opportunities -- The Role of "Chief" Dolbizan in the Zabarima Slave Wars -- The Relation of Dolbizan to the Zabarima Slavers -- The Nature of Yalingbong, the War Rock -- The Siege at Yalingbong -- Dolbizan and the Zabarima: Summary and Conclusions -- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The French -- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The British -- Governance Today -- The Changing Family -- The Past: Material Conditions and Structure -- The 1978 Household Structure -- The Petrofarming Revolution and Market Demand, 1998 -- The 1998 Household Structure -- Prostitution, Sex and Marriage -- Changing Marriage Patterns -- The Political Economy of Marriage -- Marriage Defined -- Bridewealth Payments -- The Prestations and Transactions of Marriage -- Returnability of the Bridewealth -- Legitimacy and Patrimony -- A Case of a Bridewealth Payment in Default -- Divination as Negotiation -- The Divinatory Process -- The Five Stages in Divination -- Contact -- Opening of the Bag -- Invocation of the Ancestors -- Removal of the Code Objects -- Interrogation -- Postdivinatory Sacrifice.

ISBN

0890896372

LCCN

^^2001025309

OCLC

• 49912641
• SCSB-11836814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library