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

Title: Writing and colonialism in northern Ghana : the encounter between the LoDagaa and "the World on Paper" / Sean Hawkins.
Author: Hawkins, Sean.
Publication: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2002.

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xv, 468 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Anthropological horizons ; 18

Uniform Title

Anthropological horizons ; 18.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-445) and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0802048722 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003430911

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Harvard Library