Location: Home » Ethnic Studies » Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
enlarge	Author: Robert M. Baum Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Category: Book List Price: ~~$145.00~~ Buy Used: $9.35 as of 7/29/2010 09:27 CDT details You Save: $135.65 (94%) New (11) Used (17) from $9.35 Seller: mcintyreandmoorebooksellers Rating: 1 reviews Media: Hardcover Edition: First Printing Pages: 304 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 5.9 x 1 ISBN: 0195123921 Dewey Decimal Number: 299.6832 EAN: 9780195123920 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Similar Items: Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (Dialogos Series)


Editorial Reviews: Product Description 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 colse involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.

Customer Reviews: The Fascinating scope of African Religion. April 22, 2000 Abu Ibrihim Ibn al-Halaj Y'Izza (Dakar, Senegal) 3 out of 5 found this review helpful Baum has done an excellent job at capturing the impact of slavery on traditional African religion. The fact that an often ignored subject is gaining insightful scolarly attention is great and represents a definite progression within the feild.