Sarró, Ramon. <br/><br/>
The politics of religious change on the upper Guinea coast :  iconoclasm done and undone / 
Roman Sarró. 
 - Edinburgh, UK :  Edinburgh University Press,  ©2009. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
 - International African library ;  38 .
 - International African library ;  38. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note:  Introduction: Cassava Fields, Sacred Woods --  On ruins and landscape --  On African religion and iconoclasm --  living space as a remote area --  Ethnography as the art of being late --  Landlords, citizens and iconoclasts: introducing the actors and the events --  Ethnography and iconoclasm: a Rashomonian view --  Rivers and Motorways --  Language and population on the Guinean coast --  language of the spirits --  Mangrove rice: a tale of two species --  river bank --  open road --  missing wood: Baga parents and Susu children --  Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Coastal Mangroves in Pre-Colonial Times --  Uncles and nephews: the logics of asymmetric settlement --  Landlords, strangers and spirits --  No room for slaves? --  Contested spiritscapes --  crown of Timbo: exploring pre-colonial political imagination --  Chiefs, Customs and Territory: the Legacy of French Rule -- ^  On cultural fatigue --  delimitation of a 'Baga' territory --  Chiefs, taxes and strangers --  rise of Christianity --  Fula hegemony --  Revolt and takeover --  Despotism and political awareness --  burden of being Baga --  Conclusion --  Running and Hiding: the End of Colonialism and the Arrival of the Iconoclasts --  Youth and dance: a prelude --  rise of Islam --  stranger and the end of death --  Spiritual encounters --  Spiritual encounters of a different kind --  Farewell to the Baga --  Mande Tricksters and Transformations: from Iconoclastic Preachers to Iconoclastic Politicians --  marabout who came from the east --  Revisiting the spiritual encounters --  Routinised iconoclasm --  Once there were landlords --  On religious convergence --  Surviving Iconoclasm --  From children's games to elders' secrets: the story of the alipne --  Excursus I: iconoclasm and the centripetality of knowledge -- ^  urban social form: the story of the ressortissants --  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7. 
<br/><br/> Based on research spanning over 12 years, this title offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748636662 0748636668 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9786612059056 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>205905  MIL 22573/cttk1z16  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion and politics--Guinea.<br/>Iconoclasm--Guinea.<br/>Iconoclasm.<br/>RELIGION--Christianity--General.<br/>RELIGION--Theology.<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Gaia & Earth Energies.<br/>RELIGION--General.<br/>Iconoclasm.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Religion.<br/>Religion and politics.<br/>Politique.<br/>Religions.<br/>Vandalismus<br/>Kunstwerk<br/>Islam
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Guinea--Religion.<br/>Guinea--Social life and customs.<br/>Guinea.<br/>Guinée.<br/>Bāǧa<br/>Guinea
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL2470.G8  / S27 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>202.18096652 22