Asante, Kingdom of Gold
Subtitle: Essays in the History of an African Culture
By: Tom McCaskie, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1031
ISBN-13: 9781611635928
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Ashanti (African people); Kings and rulers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Structural models and African kingdoms : some aspects of a case study --; title: Innovational eclecticism : the Asante empire and Europe in the nineteenth century --; title: Social rebellion and the inchoate rejection of history : some reflections on the career of Opon Asibe Tutu --; title: The history of the Manwere Nkoa at Drobonso --; title: The creation of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ltd., 1890-1910 : an episode in the colonial impact upon Asante --; title: Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh's account to the Asanteman of his exile from Kumase (1896-1924) : a document with commentary --; title: A contemporary account in Twi of the Akompi Sa of 1863 : a document with commentary --; title: Office, land, and subjects in the history of the Manwere Fekuo of Kumase : an essay in the political economy of the Asante state --; title: Time and the calendar in nineteenth-century Asante : an exploratory essay --; title: State and society, marriage and adultery : some considerations towards a social history of pre-colonial Asante --; title: Anti-witchcraft cults in Asante : an essay in the social history of an African people --; title: Accumulation, wealth, and belief in Asante history : I. To the close of the nineteenth century --; title: R.S. Rattray and the construction of Asante history : an appraisal --; title: Ahyiamu - 'a place of meeting' : an essay on process and event in the history of the Asante state --; title: Drake's fake : a curiosity concerning a spurious visit to Asante in 1839 --; title: Power and dynastic conflict in Mampon --; title: Accumulation, wealth, and belief in Asante history : II. The twentieth century --; title: Komfo Anokye of Asante : meaning, history, and philosophy in an African society --; title: Death and the Asantehene : a historical meditation --; title: Asantes'm : reflections on discourse and text in Africa --; title: Inventing Asante --; title: Armah's The healers and Asante history --; title: Nananom Mpow of Mankessim : an essay in Fante history --; title: People and animals : constru(ct)ing the Asante experience --; title: Konnurokus'm : kinship and family in the history of the Oyoko K'ko' dynasty of Kumase --; title: Custom, tradition, and law in precolonial Asante --; title: Asante and Ga : the history of a relationship --; title: Akwankwaa : Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in his life and times --; title: The last will and testament of Kofi Sraha : a note on accumulation and inheritance in colonial Asante --; title: Trees and the domestication of power in Asante thought --; title: The consuming passions of Kwame Boakye: an essay on agency and identity in Asante history --; title: The golden stool at the end of the nineteenth century : setting the record straight --; title: Lake Bosomtwe, Asante : a historical reading --; title: Agyeman Prempeh before the exile --; title: Sakrobundi Ne Aberewa : Sie Kwaku the witch-finder in the Akan world --; title: Asen Praso in history and memory --; title: Anglicanism and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh --; title: Writing, reading, and printing death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante --; title: Denkyira in the making of Asante, c. 1660-1720 --; title: The life and afterlife of Yaa asantewaa --; title: Asante history : a personal impression of forty years --; title: Akwantemfi --; title: 'in mid-journey' : an Asante shrine today and its clients --; title: Gun culture in Kumasi --; title: Asante, Apagyafie and president Kufuor of Ghana : a historical interpretation --; title: Asante origins, Egypt, and the Near East : an idea and its history --; title: African American psychologists, the Atlantic slave trade, and Ghana : a history of the present --; title: 'Water wars' in Kumasi, Ghana --; title: On Mouri Beach in 1821 : the British and Empire in the Gold Coast --; title: Local knowledge : an Akuapem Twi history of Asante --; title: Telling the tale of Osei Bonsu : an essay on the making of Asante oral history.