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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix A Note on Ewe Orthography xiii A History Outlined xv Introduction: Managing the Modern 1 1 Notsie Narratives 14 2 Of Water and Spirits 35 3 Placing and Spacing the Dead 61 4 Belief and the Body 83 5 Contested Terrain 109 Conclusion: Explaining Cultural Adaptation and Epistemological Abandonment 132 Notes 139 Bibliography 175 Index 191 Maps and Figures MAPS Map 1. Eweland (Ghana and Togo), Showing Major Towns. xiv Map 2. Central Anlo. xx Map 3. The Partitioning of the Ewe. 24 Map 4. Map of Anlo Area Showing the Location of Blolui Pond. 51 Map 5. Keta and the Encroaching Sea. 59 Map 6. The Grid Design of the Rebuilt Center of Anloga. 77 FIGURES Figure 1. Bremen Mission missionaries, wives, and deaconesses, Keta, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. 21 Figure 2. Re-enacting the Notsie exodus through dress at the Hogbetsotsoza, 1996. 27 Figure 3. The pond Welifome (overgrown with weeds). 39 Figure 4. The pond Atsivume (cemented for preservation). 39 Figure 5. Keta Lagoon in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. 40 Figure 6. Fia Sri II in the early twentieth century. 45 Figure 7. The pond Blolui and the remnants of the sacred grove, 1996. 50 Figures 8 and 9. Traditional religious and Christian rituals at the sea. 56 Figure 10. A late-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century Bremen Mission photo of “unsanitary” conditions near Keta. 73 Figure 11. A modern cemetery in Anlo, 1996. 75 Figure 12. A reincarnation ritual, 1996. 81 Figure 13. A man wearing a hat that identi¤es him as a priest. 93 Figure 14. An Anlo young woman’s formal dress—a state of undress, according to the Bremen Mission. 97 Figure 15. The “proper” dress for young Christian Anlo women, according to the Bremen Mission. 98 Figure 16. Native assistant Besa and his wife at the Bremen School in Woe. 117 Figure 17. Fia Amedor Kpegla, seated behind the boy. 121 Figure 18. The Nyiko grove in Anloga, 1928. Notice the man standing at the entrance. 126 Figure 19. The police station erected on the grounds of the former Nyiko grove. 127 Figure 20. T. S. A. Togobo. 129 ...

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