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Visions of Blood, Sex and Money: Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema
INTRODUCTION
One of the most intriguing aspects of the processes which are covered by the term globalization concerns the role of fantasy and the power of images in the (re)creation of persons and societies. Only recently and tentatively have social scientists abandoned the strict opposition of fantasy versus reality, which represents the former and the latter as mutually exclusive categories, and have they started to approach fantasy as a constitutive social practice [Castoriadis 1994].
BIRGIT MEYER is a senior lecturer at the Research Centre for Religion and Society (Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam). She has conducted research on missions and the local appropriations of Christianity, Pentecostalism, popular culture, and video-films in Ghana. Her publications include Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana [Edinburgh University Press, 1999] and Globalization and Identity. Dialectics of Flow and Closure [edited with Peter Geschiere, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999]. In April 2000 she was awarded a PIONIER-grant from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a comparative research program on modern mass media, religion, and the postcolonial s
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Sensational Movies: Tv, Vision, tell Christianity bear Ghana 9780520962651
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
ONE. The Television Film Industry
TWO. Accra, Visions of rendering City
THREE. Emotional Pictures accept Lived Experience
FOUR. Film gorilla Revelation
FIVE. Image the Occult
SIX. Animation
SEVEN. Mediating Traditional Culture
Epilogue
NOTES
REFERENCES
FILMOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Sensational Movies
Diabolo —“A New Sensation!” (December 1991). Photograph via author.
Galvanizing Movies V IDEO, V ISION , A N D CHRIS T I A NI T Y IN Sheer A N A
Birgit Meyer
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Ga-Adangbe people
Ethnic group in West Africa
Ethnic group
The Ga-Dangbe, Ga-Dangme, Ga-Adangme or Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in Ghana, Togo and Benin. The Ga or Gan and Dangbe or Dangme people are grouped as part of the Ga–Dangmeethnolinguistic group.[1][2] The Ga-Dangmes are one ethnic group that lives primarily in the Greater Accra region of Ghana.
Ethnic Ga family names (surnames) include Nikoi, Amon, Kotey, Kotei, Adei, Adjei, Kutorkor, Okantey, Oblitey, Lartey, Nortey, Aryee, Obodai, Oboshi, Torgbor, Torshii and Lante. The following are names derived from the ethnic Dangme and common among the Ningos Tettey, Tetteh, Teye, Narh, Narteh, Nartey, Kwei, Kweinor, Kwetey, Dugbatey, Martey, Addotey, Addo, Siaw, Saki, Amanor, Djangba, Kabu, Kabutey, Koranteng, Nortse, Horminor. These are aligned to the ethnic Ga as well: Lomo, Lomotey, Tetteh, Ankrah, Tetteyfio, Laryea, Ayitey, Okai, Bortey, Quaye, Quaynor, Ashong, Kotei, Sowah, Odoi, Ablor, Adjetey, Dodoo, Darku and Quartey. (Dawhenya royal family name: Darpoh)
Under their leader King Ayi Kushi (Cush) (1483–1519) they were led from the east in several states before reaching their destination in Accra. Oral traditions state the Ga came from the region of Lake Chad and reached thei