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 close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia. To get started finding Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
302
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Release
1999
ISBN
0195352475
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
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 close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia. To get started finding Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.