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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
KONNUROKUS M : KINSHIP AND FAMILY IN THE HISTORY OF THE OYOKO K KO
DYNASTY OF KUMASE
- CUSTOM, TRADITION, AND LAW IN PRECOLONIAL ASANTE
- ASANTE AND GA : THE HISTORY OF A RELATIONSHIP
- AKWANKWAA : OWUSU SEKYERE AGYEMAN IN HIS LIFE AND TIMES
- THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF KOFI SRAHA : A NOTE ON ACCUMULATION AND
INHERITANCE IN COLONIAL ASANTE
- TREES AND THE DOMESTICATION OF POWER IN ASANTE THOUGHT
- THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF KWAME BOAKYE: AN ESSAY ON AGENCY AND
IDENTITY IN ASANTE HISTORY
- THE GOLDEN STOOL AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY : SETTING THE
RECORD STRAIGHT
- LAKE BOSOMTWE, ASANTE : A HISTORICAL READING
- AGYEMAN PREMPEH BEFORE THE EXILE
- SAKROBUNDI NE ABEREWA : SIE KWAKU THE WITCH-FINDER IN THE AKAN WORLD
- ASEN PRASO IN HISTORY AND MEMORY
- ANGLICANISM AND ASANTEHENE AGYEMAN PREMPEH
- WRITING, READING, AND PRINTING DEATH : OBITUARIES AND COMMEMORATION IN
ASANTE
- DENKYIRA IN THE MAKING OF ASANTE, C. 1660-1720
- THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF YAA ASANTEWAA
- ASANTE HISTORY : A PERSONAL IMPRESSION OF FORTY YEARS
- AKWANTEMFI
- IN MID-JOURNEY : AN ASANTE SHRINE TODAY AND ITS CLIENTS
- GUN CULTURE IN KUMASI
- ASANTE, APAGYAFIE AND PRESIDENT KUFUOR OF GHANA : A HISTORICAL
INTERPRETATION
- ASANTE ORIGINS, EGYPT, AND THE NEAR EAST : AN IDEA AND ITS HISTORY
- AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE, AND GHANA :
A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT
- WATER WARS IN KUMASI, GHANA
- ON MOURI BEACH IN 1821 : THE BRITISH AND EMPIRE IN THE GOLD COAST
- LOCAL KNOWLEDGE : AN AKUAPEM TWI HISTORY OF ASANTE
- TELLING THE TALE OF OSEI BONSU : AN ESSAY ON THE MAKING OF ASANTE ORAL
HISTORY
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Asante, Kingdom of Gold
Essays in the History of
an African Culture
Tom McCaskie
HONORARY SENIOR RESEARCH FEL OW
DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, U K
CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS
Durham, North Carolina
Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xxv
Chapter 1 • Structural Models and African Kingdoms:
Some Aspects of a Case Study 3
Chapter 2 • Innovational Eclecticism: The Asante Empire a id
Europe in the Nineteenth Century 11
Chapter 3 • Social Rebellion and the Inchoate Rejection of History:
Some Reflections on the Career of Opon Asibe Tutu 27
Chapter 4 • The History of the Manwere Nkoa at Drobonso 33
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Chapter 5 • The Creation of Ashanti Goldfields Corporatior, Ltd ,
1890-1910: An Episode in the Colonial Impact upon Asante 41
Chapter 6 • Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh s Account to th :
Asanteman of His Exile from Kumase (1896—I! 24):
A Document with Commentary 59
Chapter 7 • A Contemporary Account in Twi of the Akompi Sa
of 1863: A Document with Commentary 71
Chapter 8 • Office, Land, and Subjects in the History of the
Manwere Fekuo of Kumase: An Essay in the
Political Economy of the Asante State 79
Chapter 9 • Time and the Calendar in Nineceenth-Century A sante:
An Exploratory Essay 99
Chapter 10 • State and Society, Marriage and Adultery:
Some Considerations towards a Social History
of Pre-Colonial Asante 121
Chapter 11 • Anti-Witchcraft Cults in Asante: An Essay in the
Social History of an African People 141
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Chapter 12 • Accumulation, Wealth, and Belief in Asante History: T
To the Close of the Nineteenth Centv ry 167
Chapter 13 • R S Rattray and the Construction of Asante History:
An Appraisal 189
Chapter 14 • Ahyiamu — A Place of Meeting : An Essay on Process
and Event in the History of the Asante State 207
Chapter 15 • Drake s Fake: A Curiosity Concerning a Spurious
Visit to Asante in 1X39 227
Chapter 16 • Power and Dynastic Conflict in Mampon 239
Chapter 17 • Accumulation, Wealth, and Belief in Asante History: 11
The Twentieth Ceniury 257
Chapter 18 • Komfo Anokye of Asante: Meaning History, and
Philosophy in an African Society 279
Chapter 19 • Death and the Asan ehene: A Histor cal Meditation 305
^Chapter 20 • Asantescm: Reflections on Discourse and Text in Africa 333
Chapter 21 • Inventing Asante 353
Chapter 22 • Armah s The Healers and Asante History 365
Chapter 23 • Nananom Mpow of Mankessim: An Essay in Fante History 379
Chapter 24 • People and Animals: Constru(ct)ing the Asante Experience 405
Chapter 25 • Konnurokusem: Kinship and Famih in the History of
the Oyoko Kokoi Dynasty of Kuma se 431
Chapter 26 • Custom, Tradition, and Law in Precolonial Asante 465
Chapter 27 • Asante and Ga: The History of a Relationship 483
Chapter 28 • Akwankwaa: Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in His Life and Times 505
Chapter 29 • The Last Will and Testament of Kofi Sraha: A Note
on Accumulation and Inheritance in Colonial Asante 533
Chapter 30 • Trees and the Domestication of Power in Asante Thought 543
Chapter 31 • The Consuming Passions of Kwame Boakye: An Essay
on Agency and Identity in Asante History 559
CONTENTS ix
Chapter 32 • The Golden Stool at the End of the Nineteenth Century:
Setting the Record Straight 581
Chapter 33 • Lake Bosomtwe, Asante: A Historical Reading 607
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Chapter 34 • Agyeman Prempeh before the Exile 625
Chapter 35 • Sakrobundi ne Aberewa: Sie K waku the Witch- Finder
in the Akan World 641
Chapter 36 • Asen Praso in History and Memory 679
Chapter 37 • Anglicanism and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh 695
Chapter 38 • Writing, Reading, and Printing Death: Obituaries
and Commemoration in Asante 717
Chapter 39 • Denkyira in the Making of Asante, c 1660—17:10 741
Chapter 40 • The Life and Afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa 767
Chapter 41 • Asante History: A Personal Impression of Fort;/Years 793
Chapter 42 • Akwantemfi— in mid-journey : An Asante Shiine Today
? and Its Clients 805
Chapter 43 • Gun Culture in Kumasi 825
Chapter 44 • Asante, Apagyafie, and President Kufuor of Ghana:
A Historical Interpretation 845
Chapter 45 • Asante Origins, Egypt, and the Near East:
An Idea and Its History 877
Chapter 46 • African American Psychologists, the Atlantic Slave Trade,
and Ghana: A History of the Present 897
Chapter 47 • Water Wars in Kumasi, Ghana 913
Chapter 48 • On Mouri Beach in 1821: The British and Emp ire
in the Gold Coast 929
Chapter 49 • Local Knowledge: An Akuapem Twi History of Asante 951
Chapter 50 • Telling the Tale of Osei Bonsu: An Essay on the
Making of Asante Oral History 967
Index 985
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