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 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
Print Book, English, ©2000
Edinburgh University Press ; Indiana University Press, London, Bloomington, ©2000
History
ix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780253340306, 9780253214966, 9780748615100, 0253340306, 0253214963, 0748615105
46660581
International African Library Published in association with the International African Institute, London Table of Contents: Introduction Adeebeba Lives: the Nineteenth century Adeebeba Lives: Contextualizing Community and Identity Adeebeba Lives: The Twentieth Century Conclusion 6 x 9, 229 pages, 5 maps, 28 b & w illustrations
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