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Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
Shrines of the Slave Trade Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
Author: Robert Martin Baum, Robert M. Baum
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195123920
ISBN-10: 0195123921
Publication Date: 4/16/1999
Pages: 287
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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