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" Tongnaab "
/ Jean Allman and John Parker
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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300
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b11066
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English
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| Main Entry
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Allman, Jean Marie
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Tongnaab:the history of a West African god/ Jean Allman and John Parker
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| Publication Statement
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press,, c2005.
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xi, 300 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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0253346657(cloth : alk.paper)
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
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| Contents
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Tongnaab and the Talensi in the history of the Middle Volta savanna -- Gods and guns, rituals and rule, 1911-1928 -- "Watch over me" : witchcraft and anti-witchcraft movements in Ghanaian history, 1870s-1920s -- From savanna to forest : Nana Tongo and ritual commerce in the world of cash and cocoa -- Tongnaab, Meyer Fortes, and the making of colonial Taleland, 1928-1945 -- Tongnaab and the dynamics of history among the Talensi.
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Tallensi (African people)Religion
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Tongnaab (African deity)Cult--History--20th century
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WitchcraftAfrica, West--History--20th century
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WitchcraftAfrica, West--History--19th century
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| Dewey Classification
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299.6.835
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BL2480.T3,A45 2005
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Parker, John، 1960
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