TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction.

Allan Dawson (McGill University/STANDD)

1. Pots, Stones, and Potsherds: Shrines in the Mandara Mountains (North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria)

Judith Sterner (Alberta College of Art and Design)

Nicholas David (University of Calgary)

2. The Archaeology of Shrines among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana: Materiality and Interpretive Relevance

Timothy Insoll (University of Manchester)

Benjamin Kankpeyeng (University of Ghana, Legon)

Rachel MacLean (University of Manchester)

3. Earth Shrines and Autochthony among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana

Allan Charles Dawson (McGill University/STANDD)

4. Shrines and Compound Abandonment: Ethnoarchaeological Observations in Northern Ghana

Charles Mather (University of Calgary)

5. Constructing Ritual Protection on an Expanding Settlement Frontier: Earth Shrines in the Black Volta Region

Carola Lentz (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

6. Moroccan Saints’ Shrines as Systems of Distributed Knowledge

Doyle Hatt (University of Calgary)

Index