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Ashanti to Zulu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 34

Ashanti to Zulu

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992-07-15
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  • Publisher: Penguin

Artists Leo and Diane Dillon won their second consecutive Caldecott Medal for this stunning ABC of African culture. "Another virtuoso performance. . . . Such an astute blend of aesthetics and information is admirable, the child's eye will be rewarded many times over."--Booklist. ALA Notable Book; Caldecott Medal.

Fanti and Ashanti
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 145

Fanti and Ashanti

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

A-E
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1548

A-E

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156
Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1816

Library of Congress Subject Headings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Asante, Kingdom of Gold
  • Language: en

Asante, Kingdom of Gold

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Asante, Africa's celebrated "kingdom of gold," offers to the scholar and interested reader alike the most richly documented of all of Africa's historic societies. This history is embedded in and amplified by a vibrant oral tradition maintained by the Asante of today. The essays in this book, fifty in number, cover diverse aspects of the Asante experience from the creation of the kingdom in the later seventeenth century to the status of Asante in today's Ghana. In addition, these essays range over and discuss a variety of crucial aspects of Asante social and cultural life - kinship, witchcraft, community, selfhood, gender, death, warfare, and the rest. These essays span nearly half a century ...

Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asa...

The Asante of West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

The Asante of West Africa

Briefly describes the beliefs, traditions, food, clothes, and gold jewelry of the Ashante of Ghana.

Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1460
Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282