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.
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"Robert M. Baum's book on Diola religion and society is an important contribution to the history of Senegambia and to the history of African "traditional" religion....This book will be an important resource for scholars of African religion and readers interested in the history of the slave trade."--American Historical Review
"...[a] groundbreaking study....Robert Baum's mastery of the rich details underlying Diola Esulalu thought has few parallels. It demonstrates what four years of intense participation and sympathetic observation can produce in the way of a fascinating history of an African indigenous philosophy."--International Journal of African Historical Studies
"...[a] supurb study."--The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"[A] judicious mix of ethnographic detail and processual theory....It is odd how rare and valuable a work this is."--Religious Studies Review
"...[a] groundbreaking study....Robert Baum's mastery of the rich details underlying Diola Esulalu thought has few parallels. It demonstrates what four years of intense participation and sympathetic observation can produce in the way of a fascinating history of an African indigenous philosophy."--International Journal of African Historical Studies
"...[a] supurb study."--The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"[A] judicious mix of ethnographic detail and processual theory....It is odd how rare and valuable a work this is."--Religious Studies Review
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Robert M. Baum is at Harvard University.
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The Fascinating scope of African Religion.,
By Abu Ibrihim Ibn al-Halaj Y'Izza (Dakar, Senegal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia (Hardcover)
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.
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Shrines of the Slave Trade, Hupila Hugop, Encountering Esulalu, Casamance River, Mansa Floup, Religious Change, Elou Mlomp, Their Borders, Diola-Esulalu Religious Tradition, Sam Sam, The Elaboration of Tradition, Thionk Essil, Pointe Saint-Georges, Hupila Hudjenk, Kooliny Djabune, African Traditional Religions, West African, Siopama Diedhiou, Elou Mlornp, Robin Horton, Gambia River, Ayou Ahan, Kapooeh Diedhiou, Antoine Diedhiou, Boolai Senghor Browse Sample Pages:
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awasena path, blacksmith shrines, township unity, palm wine libations, divinatory shrine, council shrine, shrine elders, spirit shrines, wooden fetters, quarter shrines, lineage shrines, fertility shrine, war shrine, shrine precincts, shrines associated, royal shrine, funeral dance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shrines of the Slave Trade, Hupila Hugop, Encountering Esulalu, Casamance River, Mansa Floup, Religious Change, Elou Mlomp, Their Borders, Diola-Esulalu Religious Tradition, Sam Sam, The Elaboration of Tradition, Thionk Essil, Pointe Saint-Georges, Hupila Hudjenk, Kooliny Djabune, African Traditional Religions, West African, Siopama Diedhiou, Elou Mlornp, Robin Horton, Gambia River, Ayou Ahan, Kapooeh Diedhiou, Antoine Diedhiou, Boolai Senghor Browse Sample Pages:
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- Tongnaab: The History of a West African God by Jean Allman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman in Back Matter
- Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History (Overtures to Biblical Theology) by Leo G. Perdue in Back Matter
- "Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth - Nineteenth Centuries by Peter A. Mark in Back Matter
- Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures,) by Gwyn Campbell in Back Matter
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