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Asante identities : history and modernity in an African village, 1850-1950 /
"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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London : Bloomington :
Edinburgh University Press ; Indiana University Press,
[2000]
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| Collection: | International African library ;
25. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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 |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585443890 9780585443898 0253214963 9780253214966 0253340306 9780253340306 0748615105 9780748615100 9781474470827 1474470823 0748672737 9780748672738 |
| Accès: | Legal Deposit; |