ISBN:
0-19-821694-7
,
978-0-19-821694-0
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 265 Seiten
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in African Affairs
DDC:
967.0072
Keywords:
Afrika Orale Tradition
;
Orale Geschichte
;
Historiographie, indigene
;
Fanti
;
Ashanti
Description / Table of Contents:
List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. The shape of the past: history as present poliltics -- II. The problem of extended father/son succession -- III. Literary, indirect rule, and the political role of antiquity in oral tradition -- IV. Quantification: data v. method -- V. The traditional chronology of the coastal Fante -- VI Asante microchronology -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. The Assyrian king lists -- Appendix B. The Jodhpur chronicles -- Appendix C. The Spartan royal genealogies -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [214]-253
