Tongnaab
Subtitle: the history of a West African god
By: Jean Allman and John Parker.
Contributors: Parker, John, 1960-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Tallensi (African people) -- Religion; Tongnaab (African deity) -- Cult -- History -- 20th century; Witchcraft -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century; Witchcraft -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna; title: Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928; title: "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s; title: From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa; title: Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945; title: Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.