Asante identities: history and modernity in an African village, 1850-1950
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Main Author: McCaskie, T. C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Edinburgh University Press ©2000
Series:International African library
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index
"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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 277 pages)
ISBN:0253214963
0253340306
0585443890
0748615105
9780253214966
9780253340306
9780585443898
9780748615100

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