| State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante Contributor(s): McCaskie, T. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521410096 ISBN-13: 9780521410090 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $152.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: 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 Asante 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 966.701 |
| LCCN: 94006732 |
| Series: African Studies Series |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.28" W x 9.28" (1.87 lbs) 516 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |