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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London : Bloomington :
Edinburgh University Press ; Indiana University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | International African library ;
25. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Adeebeba Lives: The Nineteenth Century. Beginners: Founding Manwere and Adeebeba, 1790s-1840s. Pioneers: Making a Settlement at Adeebeba, 1840s-1880s. Subjects: Manwere and Adeebeba in a Time of Trial, 1960s-1900s
- 3. Adeebeba Lives: Contextualising Community and Identity. Reference, Inference and Community. Reference, Inference and Identity. Witnessing to Then and Now
- 4. Adeebeba Lives: The Twentieth Century. Incitements: Adeebeba People, Mobility and Money, 1900s-1940s. Involvements: Adeebeba People and Kumase, 1900s-1940s. Intersubjectivities: Adeebeba Women and Men, 1900s-1940s. Subjectivities: Being, Belief and the Travails of Amma Kyirimaa, 1900-1940s
- 5. Conclusion. Scrambling for money: Kumase after 1945.