The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Papers on History and Society, Ghanaian and Islamic in Honor of Ivor WilksJohn O. Hunwick, Nancy Ellen Lawler Northwestern University Press, 1996 - 404 pagina's The Cloth of Many Colored Silks collects a wide variety of scholarship dealing with Ghanaian history and society, including papers by Basil Davidson, Jean Allman, Esther Goody and Jack Goody, Sandra E. Greene, Polly Hill, Ray A. Kea, Peter Shinnie, Victoria B. Tashjian, Larry W. Yarak, Ralph A. Austen, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Robert S. Kramer, Robert Launay, Donna J.E. Maier, R.S. O'Fahey, David Owusu-Ansah, and Enid Schildkrout. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction John Hunwick | 2 |
Thematic Essay | 15 |
Papers on Ghanaian History and Society | 27 |
The Naked and the Clothed Esther Goody and Jack | 67 |
The Politics | 91 |
Selected Land Cases | 129 |
Economic Relations between Spouses in Asante Victoria | 205 |
Slavery and the State in Asante History Larry W Yarak | 223 |
Papers on Islamic Themes | 241 |
Borgu in the Cultural Map of the Muslim Diasporas of West | 259 |
Islam and Identity in the Kumase Zongo Robert | 287 |
Islam and the Idea of Asylum in Asante Donna J | 319 |
Maḥram | 339 |
Conflicting Traditions David | 355 |
Bibliography of the Writings of Ivor Wilks | 393 |
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