Asante Identities History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950

Name: Asante Identities History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950
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ISBN: 9780253214966

ISBN-10: 0253214963

ISBN-13: 9780253214966

Edition: 2001

Authors: T. C. McCaskie

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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

T. C. McCaskie holds the only established universitypost in Asante Studies, as Reader in Asante History at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He is author of State and Society in Precolonial Asante and of numerous papers on Asante.



List of Maps and Figures


Preface



Introduction



Adeebeba Lives: The Nineteenth Century


Beginners: Founding Manwere and Adeebeba, 1790s-1840s


Pioneers: Making a Settlement at Adeebeba, 1840s-1880s


Subjects: Manwere and Adeebeba in a Time of Trial, 1960s-1900s



Adeebeba Lives: Contextualising Community and Identity


Reference, Inference and Community


Reference, Inference and Identity


Witnessing to Then and Now



Adeebeba Lives: The Twentieth Century


Incitements: Adeebeba People, Mobility and Money, 1900s-1940s


Involvements: Adeebeba People and Kumase, 1900s-1940s


Intersubjectivities: Adeebeba Women and Men, 1900s-1940s


Subjectivities: Being, Belief and the Travails of Amma Kyirimaa, 1900-1940s



Conclusion


Scrambling for money: Kumase after 1945


'Nana, your fire does not burn me': Adeebeba after 1945


Adeebeba Lives: Presences and Absences


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index