Shrines of the Slave Trade : Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195123921
ISBN-13
9780195123920
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 17th, 1999
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
676 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 25.00 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
African historySocial & cultural historyChristianityTribal religionsCultural studies
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This text aims to reconstruct religious and social history of Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when Atlantic slave trade was at its height. It shows how leaders used religion to regulate the influence of the trade, and demonstrates how this changed religious life.
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.
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