Anchoring Religion in the World: A South
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David Chidester
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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This essay focuses upon a single object, a shipwrecked anchor that was washed ashore on the eastern Cape coast of southern Africa. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, European travellers, missionaries, and magistrates cited this anchor as evidence of religion among indigenous people in the r