Ghana's past is being destroyed at a rapid rate. Although the Ghana Museums and
Monuments Board has in some instances successfully intervened to stop the illicit trading of …

This book captures community voices in matters relating to their relationship with specific
archaeological heritage sites and landscapes in the Limpopo Province of South Africa …

Within archaeology features such as sacred groves are often conceived of as 'natural'places.
Conversely, built or constructed places such as temples or most shrines are frequently …

The use and management of sacred sites that are still in use provide challenges to site
managers since visitors fail to abide by rules established for the sacred area. In this study, it …

Ethnography of the Tallensi shows how rights of access to shrines could be granted to
people in other places and how beneficiaries may take with them samples of stone used at …

The static is often given prominence within much archaeological interpretation and
conceptualization in relation to ritual and religion. This is potentially due to the fact that static …

'Totems','ancestors', and 'animism'are all seemingly familiar terms, applicable across wide
geographical and temporal contexts to describe religious phenomena. Yet in reality they are …

Material culture is almost entirely absent in Fortes's writing on the Tallensi, presumably a
correlate of his structural functionalist position. In contrast, his unpublished notebooks …

Archaeotourism (also called archaeological tourism) is one of the oldest tourism niches–
people have visited archaeological sites for centuries. A question that arises is whether less …

This chapter discusses a few case studies, namely the cultural landscape of Tongo-Tengzuk
Tallensi; Katchikally Sacred Crocodile Pool; Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove and Oke-Idanre …