Description: David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems.
Review Quotes: "On one level it is a significant contribution to anthropological theory....It is, at the same time, an historical case study of relationships between meanings of ethnic identity and territory amidst a sea of social change....Parkin's work here is representative of the best in current historically oriented ethnography." Ethnohistory