Antiwitchcraft Shrines among the Akan: Possession and the Gathering of Knowledge From: African Studies Review | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: Parish, Jane | Copyright African Studies Association Dec 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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This article examines the epistemological certainties and uncertainties of Akan spirit possession and witchcraft knowledge. It is based on fieldwork carried out between 1990 and 1999 in Dormaa-Ahenkro, Brong-Ahafo region, Ghana. The article examines the transcendental knowledge found among antiwitchcraft shrine gods and their priests and how the sacred knowledge of gods is utilized to counter witchcraft in the modern postcolony. This, it is argued, is an ambiguous process, in...

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