Asante identities
Subtitle: history and modernity in an African village, 1850-1950
By: T.C. McCaskie
Series: International African library
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press; Indiana University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Ashanti (African people) -- History; Ashanti (African people) -- Social life and customs; Adeebeba (Ghana) -- History; Adeebeba (Ghana) -- Social life and customs
Description: "This study of the people of the Asante village of Adeebeba - now part of Kumase, Ghana's second city - over the century 1850 to 1950 is unparalleled in its wealth of detail about the concerns of ordinary African men and women in a period of tumultuous change. In exploring their testimony in all its rich diversity, McCaskie draws out its larger implications for the understanding of Asante identities in a world overtaken by colonialism and modernity. Community and belonging, politics and belief, rural and urban lifestyles, money, mobility and sex, and all the other daily concerns of Adeebeba villagers are discussed in depth. The result is a book that in unequalled in its recuperation of the African past through African voices."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-269) and index