Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based on research spanning over 12 years, this title offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Cassava Fields, Sacred Woods -- On ruins and landscape -- On African religion and iconoclasm -- living space as a remote area -- Ethnography as the art of being late -- Landlords, citizens and iconoclasts: introducing the actors and the events -- Ethnography and iconoclasm: a Rashomonian view -- 2. Rivers and Motorways -- Language and population on the Guinean coast -- language of the spirits -- Mangrove rice: a tale of two species -- river bank -- open road -- missing wood: Baga parents and Susu children -- 3. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Coastal Mangroves in Pre-Colonial Times -- Uncles and nephews: the logics of asymmetric settlement -- Landlords, strangers and spirits -- No room for slaves? -- Contested spiritscapes -- crown of Timbo: exploring pre-colonial political imagination -- 4. Chiefs, Customs and Territory: the Legacy of French Rule -- ^ On cultural fatigue -- delimitation of a 'Baga' territory -- Chiefs, taxes and strangers -- rise of Christianity -- Fula hegemony -- Revolt and takeover -- Despotism and political awareness -- burden of being Baga -- Conclusion -- 5. Running and Hiding: the End of Colonialism and the Arrival of the Iconoclasts -- Youth and dance: a prelude -- rise of Islam -- stranger and the end of death -- Spiritual encounters -- Spiritual encounters of a different kind -- Farewell to the Baga -- 6. Mande Tricksters and Transformations: from Iconoclastic Preachers to Iconoclastic Politicians -- marabout who came from the east -- Revisiting the spiritual encounters -- Routinised iconoclasm -- Once there were landlords -- On religious convergence -- 7. Surviving Iconoclasm -- From children's games to elders' secrets: the story of the alipne -- Excursus I: iconoclasm and the centripetality of knowledge -- ^ urban social form: the story of the ressortissants --

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