Description
This study offers a "social interpretation of environmental process" for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fishermen of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. As a fishing community the Anlo have a strong attachment to their land. In the twentieth century coastal erosion has brought about a collapse of the balance between nature and culture. The Anlo have sought spiritual explanations but at the same time have responded politically by developing broader ties with Ewe-speaking peoples along the coast.
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 03/31/2002
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.10w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780821414095
ISBN10: 0821414097
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | General
- History | Historical Geography
About the Author
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong is a professor of history at Harvard University and the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He is the author of Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana c. 1850 to Recent Times.