Between the sea & the lagoon
Subtitle: an eco-social history of the Anlo of southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to recent times
By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong.
Series: Western African studies
Publisher: Ohio University Press; James Currey
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens; Oxford [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Anlo (African people) -- Social conditions.; Anlo (African people) -- Economic conditions.; Anlo (African people) -- Fishing.; Human ecology -- Ghana -- Keta Region.; Coastal ecology -- Ghana -- Keta Region.; Beach erosion -- Ghana -- Keta Region.; Keta Region (Ghana) -- Environmental conditions.
Other titles: Between the sea and the lagoon
Description: "This study offers a 'social interpretation of environmental process' for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana.".

"The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fisherman of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. Since the mid-seventeenth century they have attempted to domesticate the lagoons and the sea through the exploitation of salt and fish, the use of waterways as trade routes, and the struggle to obtain security from lagoon flooding and sea erosion.".

"As a fishing community the Anlo yet have a strong attachment to their land. In the twentieth century persistent coastal erosion has brought a collapse of the balance between nature and culture, compounded by progressive marginalization in the late-colonial and post-colonial political economy of Ghana.

The Anlo have sought spiritual explanations for environmental disaster, at the same time that they have responded politically by developing broader cultural and ecological ties with Ewe-speaking peoples along the coast."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1; title: Migration, Topography; title: & Early Settlements in the Keta Lagoon Basin; title: 2; title: Abolition, British Influence; title: & Smuggling in the Anlo Lowlands up to c. 1890; title: 3; title: Commercial Prosperity, Urbanization; title: & Social Life in Early Colonial Keta; title: 4; title: Unstable Ecology; title: Belief, Knowledge & the Enigma of Sea Erosion; title: in Colonial Keta, 1907-32; title: 5; title: The Search for Space; title: land Reclamation, Migrant Fishing, Shallot Cultivation; title: & Illicit Liquor Distillation in Anlo, c. 1930-57; title: 6; title: Harbours & Dams; title: Economic Development &i Environmental Change; title: in the Lower Volta Basin, 1957 to the Present; title: 7; title: Coastal Erosion, Political Ecology; title: & the Discourse of Environmental Citizenship; title: in Twentiethcentury Anlo; title: 8; title: Living with the Sea; title: Society & Culture in Contemporary Anlo; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Maps, Figures & Photographs.