Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precol
[Shrines of the Slave Trad]

Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

Contributor(s): Baum, Robert M (Author)

ISBN: 0195123921 EAN: 9780195123920

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 145.00 US

Binding: Hardcover

Pub Date: May 13, 1999

Publisher Marketing: 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. Show Less