TY - BOOK AU - Sarró,Ramon TI - The politics of religious change on the upper Guinea coast: iconoclasm done and undone T2 - International African library SN - 9780748636662 AV - BL2470.G8 S27 2009eb U1 - 202.18096652 22 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Edinburgh, UK PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Religion and politics KW - Guinea KW - Iconoclasm KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Theology KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT KW - Gaia & Earth Energies KW - fast KW - Manners and customs KW - Religion KW - Politique KW - eclas KW - Religions KW - Vandalismus KW - gnd KW - Kunstwerk KW - Islam KW - Social life and customs KW - Guinée KW - Bāǧa KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; 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 --; 2; 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 --; 3; 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 --; 4; 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 --; 5; 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 --; 6; 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 --; 7; 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 -- N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=268096 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=268096 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=268096 ER -