State and society in pre-colonial Asante
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State and society in pre-colonial Asante
（African studies series, 79）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 pre-colonial 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 consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Varieties of the Asante past
- 2. Society and state in Asante history
- 3. Asante odwira: experience interpreted, history constructed
- 4. The Asante past considered
- Appendices.
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