ABSTRACT
This chapter postulates that seselelame may be a foundational schema, and as such it may serve as a possible source domain for an array of cultural models - including narrative, verbal formulas, and other language arts. It takes our understanding of seselelame further by contemplating its out-of-awareness characteristics and by using it to help account for how certain objects from precolonial times continue to possess the hearts and minds of some Anlo individuals. In colonial Anlo-land, "Western clothing was instrumental in the construction of modern identities, and hats, coats, polished shoes and accessories, such as walking-sticks, were the vital paraphernalia of modernity". Mr. Atsatsa related that when going out in public in kete cloth his experience was like that of having an added personality - particularly as some of his colleagues and friends would call out his ahanonko.
