ISBN:
0-521-41009-6
,
978-0-521-41009-0
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 492 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 79
Keywords:
Ghana Historischer Staat Afrika
;
Königreich
;
Ashanti
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte, vorkoloniale
;
Staat und Gesellschaft
;
Fest
;
Ritual und Zeremonie
;
Historiographie
Abstract:
Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T.C. MaCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in Asante in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. Is is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Varieties of the Asante past -- 2. State and society in Asante history -- 3. Society and state in Asante history -- 4. Asante odwira: experience interpreted, history constructed -- 5. The Asante past considered -- Appendix I: Bowdich's The First Day of the Yam Custom -- Appendix II: A glossary of some Asante Twi terms -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Notes -- Guide to sources and materials consulted -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 442-473
