Forests of gold: essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
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| adam_text | Forests
Gold
Essays on theAkan
and the Kingdom
ofAsante
IVOR WILKS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
CONTENTS
x Figures
xi Tables and Maps
xii Illustrations
xiii Preface
xvii Permissions
CHAPTER ONE Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
1 Introduction
2 The Wangara of the Goldfields
4 The Trade of the Costa da Mina
8 The Western Sudanese Trade to the Akan Goldfields
16 Bighu and the Matter of Bitu
22 The Akan Market Economy
24 Malians and Portuguese in Competition
28 Bighu and the Rise of Gonja
CHAPTER TWO Land, Labor, Gold, and the Forest
Kingdom of Asante: A Model of Early Change
41 Introduction
42 The Bioclimatic System
44 The Farm as a Unit
51 The Rural Economy: The Land Factor
56 The Rural Economy: The Labor Factor
64 From Hunting to Farming: Traditions of the Oyoko
66 The Era of the Great Ancestresses
72 The Labor and Gold Interchange
78 The Free, the Unfree, and the Lineages
CHAPTER THREE Founding the Political Kingdom:
The Nature of the Akan State
91 Introduction
92 The State of the Akan and the Akan State
95 From Estate to State
100 The Kwaman Purchase and the Emergence
of the Kumaseman
103 Osei Tutu as Hostage and Exile
105 A King, a General, and a Priest
109 The War of Independence
112 Founding the Asanteman
118 Reflections
CHAPTER FOUR The Golden Stool and the
Elephant Tail: Wealth in Asante
127 Introduction
128 Money in Asante
136 Wealth and Office
139 The Elites of Wealth
144 The Political Philosophy of Wealth
147 The Structure of Appropriation: Death Duties
151 The Political Economy: An Overview
CHAPTER FIVE Dissidence in Asante Politics:
Two Tracts from the Late Nineteenth Century
169 Introduction
171 A Rising Level of Conflict
179 The Voice of Dissent: The Radical Propagandists
CHAPTER SIX On Mentally Mapping Greater Asante:
A Study of Time and Motion
189 Introduction
191 The Great-roads of Asante
196 On Reckoning Distance
200 On Perceiving Greater Asante as a Month
205 The Mental Map as Timetable
208 Reflections
CHAPTER SEVEN Space, Time, and Human Sacrifice
215 Introduction
218 Enter the Missionaries
222 Enter Governor Winniet
225 Costing the Customs
230 Time, Space, and the Ancestors
234 Reflections
CHAPTER EIGHT What Manner of Persons Were These?
Generals of the Konti of Kumase
241 Introduction
243 Amankwatia as Stool Carrier
246 Amankwatia as General
249 Amankwatia as Surrogate
255 Apraku Panin
258 Adu Gyamera
261 Awua Panin and Amankwatia II
266 Awua Kuma and Apraku Kuma
270 Gyawu and Amankwatia III
274 Kwabena Awua and Amankwatia IV-
279 Reflections
CHAPTER NINE What Manner of Persons Were These?
Officials of the Kumase Administration
293 Introduction
294 The Class of Administrators and the Administrative Class
298 On Coming to the Asantehene s Attention
305 On Doing One s Proper Job and on Doing It Properly
317 On the Limits of Tolerable Conduct
323 Reflections
CHAPTER TEN She Who Blazed a Trail:
Akyaawa Yikwan of Asante
329 Introduction
331 Royal of Akorase and Princess of The Golden Stool
334 From Childhood to Middle Age
338 Taa Dwemo Goes to War
340 Akyaawa Becomes a Prisoner
343 Akyaawa Obtains Her Freedom
346 Akyaawa Promotes a General Peace
351 Akyaawa after Blazing a Trail
353 Akyaawa as Ancestress
363 Sources Cited
377 Index
TABLES
47 TABLE 1 Levels of Exploitation of the Forest
54 TABLE 2 Estimated Outputs of One-Hectare Field
over Three Years of Cultivation
55 TABLE 3 Average Food Consumption, Rural Asante
Family of Five
57 TABLE 4 Major Farm Tasks Distributed by Season
60 TABLE 5 Farm Labor Requirements by Season and Year
63 TABLE 6 Simulated Domestic Group at Five-Year Interval
68 TABLE 7 Early Descendants of the Great Ancestresses
80 TABLE 8 Listings of the Asante Matridans
281 TABLE 9 Asantehenes and Bantamahenes , with Ends
of Incumbencies
LIST OF MAPS
27 Towns associated with the Wangara trade into the
hinterland of the Akan country
113 The region of the Asante Aman Nnum, the notional five
original states of the union
119 Asante, showing the principal directions of expansion in
the eighteenth century
190 T E Bowdich s map of Greater Asante
203 Approximate frontiers of Greater Asante in the early
nineteenth century
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