Parker John
History Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
Anthropol Med. 2011 Aug;18(2):257-70. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2011.591201.
Shrines associated with the deity Tongnaab in the Talensi region of northern Ghana formed the centre of a precolonial regional cult that encompassed a variety of peoples in the savannas of the Volta basin. Despite attempts by the British colonial state to destroy the shrines and to suppress ritual activity in the Tong Hills, by the 1920s the cult was spreading beyond its heartland into the Akan forest and the Gold Coast to the south. There it became known as Nana Tongo, one of a wave of anti-witchcraft healing movements. This paper examines the material culture and the mechanics of this history of ritual mobility and metamorphosis. It reflects upon the connection between the metaphysical concept of 'shadow' and the physical substance of earth, both of which were transported in a portable shrine called a bo'artyii and used to empower satellite medicine shrines. As these items traversed cultural frontiers they were subject to local reinterpretation and transformation.
与加纳北部塔伦西地区的通纳布神相关的神龛构成了一个前殖民时期区域崇拜的中心，该崇拜涵盖了沃尔特盆地稀树草原上的各种人群。尽管英国殖民政府试图摧毁这些神龛并压制通山的仪式活动，但到了20世纪20年代，这种崇拜已从其中心地带蔓延到南部的阿坎森林和黄金海岸。在那里，它以娜娜·通戈之名为人所知，是一波反巫术治疗运动之一。本文考察了这种仪式流动与变形历史的物质文化及其机制。它思考了 “影子” 的形而上学概念与泥土物质实体之间的联系，这两者都被放置在一个名为bo'artyii的便携式神龛中运输，并被用于赋予卫星医药神龛力量。当这些物品跨越文化边界时，它们会受到当地的重新诠释和改造。
