Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. T.C. McCaskie gives a detailed and nuanced historical portrait of precolonial Asante. The book is both a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory.
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"...an extremely detailed and skillful reconstruction of the Asante past." American Historical Review
"This intellectually ambitious and feisty book seeks to provide an alternative interpretation of Asante history during its centuries of independence and thereby to model a transforming approach to African historiography....McCaskie's analytical argument is embedded in richly detailed and voluminously annotated Asante cultural and historical data derived from published and unpublished, oral and written, Asante and European sources." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This intellectually ambitious and feisty book seeks to provide an alternative interpretation of Asante history during its centuries of independence and thereby to model a transforming approach to African historiography....McCaskie's analytical argument is embedded in richly detailed and voluminously annotated Asante cultural and historical data derived from published and unpublished, oral and written, Asante and European sources." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T.C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of precolonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. It is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistencly discussed in a relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory.
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Africanist historiography has a very distinguished but incontestably short ancestry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jural corporateness, adaduanan cycle, royal nhenkwaa, gyaase fekuo, ntoro affiliation, royal ahenkwaa, ideological structuration, maximal lineage segment, sika dwa, provincial office holders, nyame dua, ancestral stools, blackened stool, asase yaa, root der, odwira festival, single womb, war charm, elephant tail, enemy skulls, ideological articulation, execution place Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kwaku Dua Panin, Komfo Anokye, Osei Kwadwo, Yamoa Ponko, Mensa Bonsu, Kwasi Brantuo, Asantehene Osei Tutu Kwame, Afua Sapon, Opoku Ware, Amma Sewaa, Kwaadu Yaadom, Osei Kwame, Asantehene Kofi Kakari, Osei Yaw Akoto, Yaw Nkyera, Gold Coast, Kusi Obodom, Afua Kobi, Bosommuru Adufudee, Kwaku Ntwiaa, Kwadwo Adinkra, Golden Stool, Yaa Kyaa, Boakye Yam Kuma, Opoku Frefre New!
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Africanist historiography has a very distinguished but incontestably short ancestry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jural corporateness, adaduanan cycle, royal nhenkwaa, gyaase fekuo, ntoro affiliation, royal ahenkwaa, ideological structuration, maximal lineage segment, sika dwa, provincial office holders, nyame dua, ancestral stools, blackened stool, asase yaa, root der, odwira festival, single womb, war charm, elephant tail, enemy skulls, ideological articulation, execution place Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kwaku Dua Panin, Komfo Anokye, Osei Kwadwo, Yamoa Ponko, Mensa Bonsu, Kwasi Brantuo, Asantehene Osei Tutu Kwame, Afua Sapon, Opoku Ware, Amma Sewaa, Kwaadu Yaadom, Osei Kwame, Asantehene Kofi Kakari, Osei Yaw Akoto, Yaw Nkyera, Gold Coast, Kusi Obodom, Afua Kobi, Bosommuru Adufudee, Kwaku Ntwiaa, Kwadwo Adinkra, Golden Stool, Yaa Kyaa, Boakye Yam Kuma, Opoku Frefre New!
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