-
Index
- Indiana University Press
- Chapter
- Additional Information
Index Page references in italics indicate illustrations. Abayifoo fekuo, 118–119, 120 Aberewa, anti-witchcraft movement of, 121, 128–131, 141, 147, 166, 179, 221, 224 Abonsamkomfoo, 127 Abosonsem, 145 Aboya, Victor, 37, 107–109, 110, 111, 141– 142, 185 Abyssinia, cult of, 180 Adae Kesee, 157 Adane, shrine of, 147 Adjakpa(ne), shrine of, 220 Adongo, chief of Bolgatanga, 58 Aduro, 145 African Herbalists, Society of, 176, 178 Afunsua, 116, 121, 258n31 Agrarian cults, 120 Akan forest, 6, 25, 26; healing of victims of witchcraft in, 123; pilgrimages to Tongnaab from, 106–142; precolonial use of, 29–30 Akan: anti-witchcraft cults of, 17, 123, 128– 131, 144; carrying the corpse custom of, 116; categories of spiritual forces in, 122; cocoa farms in forests of, 145; creation myths of, 122; Hwemeso anti-witchcraft movement in, 131–132, 132, 133, 133, 134– 136, 141, 147, 166; influenza outbreak in, 134; language for witchcraft by, 116–120, 258n33; Nana Tongo practices of, 8, 11, 13, 16, 115–142; pilgrimages to Tongnaab by, 6, 54, 106–107, 115–116; ritual practices of, 19; travel to savanna shrines by, 21 Akuapem, 130, 145, 147, 164, 168, 174–175 Akyem Abuakwa: state archives of, 18; Kunde movement in, 139; Nana Tongo shrine of, 144, 153, 163, 164, 188, 214 Akyem Abuakwa State Council, 176 Akyem Kotoku: anti-witchcraft movements in, 136; Ata Fua, omanhene in, 133; beliefs in witchcraft of, 115–116, 117 Akyem Oda, 134 Alafia, cult of, 139 Alatinga, anti-witchcraft movement of, 221 Anafu, Moses, 84, 86, 215 Ancestor shrine, ba’er, 43 Ancestors: gender of members in cults of, 52; on sanctions against battle/conflict, 67, 70; stories of journeys to Tong Hills by, 50 Anglo-Asante war (1873–74), 124 Animal totems, 39 Anlo State Council, 179 Anokye, Komfo, 125, 127, 148 Anti-witchcraft movements: in Africa, 16–17, 242n36; of Asante, 125–141; executioner’s shrines of, 226; in Ghana, 7, 21, 106–142; of Gold Coast, 125–141; historical patterns of, 121; legitimization of, 176, 177, 178; methods of execution by, 125, 126, 261n76; mobility to other regions, 91–94, 96, 102– 103, 106, 114, 144; postcolonial ritual landscape of, 223–227 Armitage, C. H., role of, 63, 74–85, 90, 97 Asante: Aberewa movement in, 121; antiwitchcraft movements in, 125–141; British colonial rule of, 55, 64; decline of northern province control by, 32; Domankama movement in, 121, 124–127; expansion campaigns of, 29–30; forest kingdom of, 6, 7, 10, 18; imperial system of, 13, 24, 123– 124; Nana Tongo movement in, 107–142; pilgrimages to Tongnaab by, 103, 106, 114; regional and nationalist movements of, 226–227; sacred sites and oracle shrines of, 124; tributes extracted by, 30, 245n21 Asante Confederacy Council, 178, 194 Asantehene, 31, 122, 124, 126–127, 226 Asasi, cult of, 137 Ashanti. See Asante Ashanti Herbalists Union, 226 Assifu, Kobina, as Nana Tongo ritual entrepreneur , 143–148, 153, 155, 157, 163–175, 179, 180, 188, 207, 214, 218–221, 225 Assifu, Paul, 147, 148, 172 Asumanni, 135 Atinga. See Alatinga, anti-witchcraft movement of Baari: community of, 41, 42; tengdaana of, 212 Babatu, 32, 47 Ba’er (pl. ba’a), ancestor shrine, 43 Banda, slave raids by, 139 Bandiagara escarpment, 33 Basel Mission, 108, 115, 130, 134 Batakari, 160, 161 Bayi, 115–117, 121–123, 123, 124–126, 130, 134–136, 141, 144, 145, 149, 151, 153, 164, 167, 174, 180–181, 259n46 Bayi boro, 117, 118, 126, 145, 147 Bayi papaa, 117 Bayihene, 119 Bemba, 14 Benin, Ifa divination cult in, 9 Birifu, settlement of, 138, 140 Black Volta River, 25, 26 Bo’ar (pl. bo’a), 37, 38, 47, 49, 75, 79, 96, 109, 143, 155, 156, 162, 181, 202, 207, 215 Bo’araam, festival of, 51, 52, 67, 157, 162, 218, 219, 233 Bo’arana, 44 Bo’artyii, 48, 48, 49, 155, 162 Bobroto, shrine of, 147 Bogere, 49 Bolgatanga, settlement of, 56, 234 Bonaab bo’ar, 37–38, 44, 46, 47, 80, 81, 98, 207, 211, 228, 253n28 Bongo: settlement of, 88–89; uprising against colonial rule in, 88–89, 96 Bovine pleuro-pneumonia, 63 Bowdich, Thomas, 30, 123, 125 Brakune, 136, 137, 138 Brazil, Ogun religion in, 9 Breketey, savanna cult of, 139 Britain: African colonies of, 54–55; West African colonies of, 4, 7. See also Colonial expansion Bruku, savanna cult of, 124, 140–141, 147, 176, 220 Builsa: as colonial recruits, 57; harvest festivals of, 51; impact of slavery on...