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Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society: Extended Description for figure 4.4

Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society
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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Africa: Missing Voices Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Pots, Stones, and Potsherds: Shrines in the Mandara Mountains (North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria)
  9. 2. The Archaeology of Shrines among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana: Materiality and Interpretive Relevance
  10. 3. Earth Shrines and Autochthony among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana
  11. 4. Shrines and Compound Abandonment: Ethnoarchaeological Observations in Northern Ghana
  12. 5. Constructing Ritual Protection on an Expanding Settlement Frontier: Earth Shrines in the Black Volta Region
  13. 6. Moroccan Saints’ Shrines as Systems of Distributed Knowledge
  14. Index

Extended Description for figure 4.4

It includes a large, rectangular area of discolored soil containing scatters of ceramic sherds and charcoal mixed earth. On the northwest is a shrine near a tree. South of the shrine is a yard containing three graves.

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