Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Tables, and Figures xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: Colonialism as an Encounter between “the World on Paper” and the World of Experience 1
6. PART ONE. Ways of Appropriating the LoDagaa
7. Chapter One. Maps and Narratives 39
8. Chapter Two. Labor, Bodies, and Names 63
9. PART TWO. Political and Religious Ambiguities
10. Chapter Three. Rewriting the Past 107
11. Chapter Four. Reimagining God 138
12. PART THREE. The Colonization of Space
13. Chapter Five. Suppressing Knowledge 165
14. Chapter Six. Missionary Medicine and Colonial Money 190
15. PART FOUR. From Social Practice to Rhetoric
16. Chapter Seven. Women, Marriage, and Adultery 227
17. Chapter Eight. Postcolonial Litigation of Personal Identities 277
18. Conclusion: Writing, Blood, and the Politics of Legitimacy 322
19. Notes 329
20. Bibliography 423
21. Index 447
22. Backmatter 469