The Asante Kingdom Of Gold
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Asante Kingdom Of Gold
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Author : T. C. McCaskie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Asante Kingdom Of Gold written by T. C. McCaskie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Ashanti (African people) categories.
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 of the author's engagement with Asante and its people. The result is scholarship that is acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of the recuperation of Africa's long and still neglected past. More than that, however, this book offers much to the large international constituency of general readers who are fascinated by the story of the greatest and most enduring of African kingdoms, and to those among them who identify with Asante and its people, and draw sustenance and inspiration from their story. Glossy photo insert included.
The Asante Kingdom Of Gold
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Author : Elizabeth Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Asante Kingdom Of Gold written by Elizabeth Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Asante Kingdom Of Gold
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Author : Ama Gueye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Asante Kingdom Of Gold written by Ama Gueye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Asante categories.
The Fall Of The Asante Empire
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Author : Robert B. Edgerton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06-15
The Fall Of The Asante Empire written by Robert B. Edgerton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Social Science categories.
For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king's palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the "golden stool," the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.
The Power Of Gold
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Author : Roslyn A. Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Power Of Gold written by Roslyn A. Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Art, Ashanti categories.
This stunning volume showcases and explores a rich and varied collection of Asante royal regalia in the broader context of Asante art. The Asante Kingdom, founded around 1701 in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), was renowned for gold, the foundation of its wealth and power. For centuries they mined this metal and traded it with northerners on the Saharan caravan routes and Europeans along the Atlantic coast. The earliest examples of Asante gold were recovered from the wreck of the Whydah, a slave ship that sank off Cape Cod in 1717. The Power of Gold focuses on a dazzling array of adornments and implements used by Asante royals and officials during the 18th century to the present day--providing a deeper understanding of the history, traditions, and visual arts of the Asante people, one of the thriving cultures of West Africa. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Dallas Museum of Art (04/15/18-08/12/18)
Asante
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Author : Philip Koslow
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House
Release Date : 1996
Asante written by Philip Koslow and has been published by Chelsea House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Provides information on the history and people of the Kingdom of Asante.
Discovering The Asante Kingdom
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Author : Robert Z. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2013-12-15
Discovering The Asante Kingdom written by Robert Z. Cohen and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Located in what is today the Republic of Ghana, the Asante kingdom was one of the richest and most powerful empires in precolonial Africa. The author explores the fascinating history, important cultural symbols, key leaders, and achievements of the empire, which flourished from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Readers learn about the Asante kingdom’s founding myths, ruling customs, and thriving capital at Kumasi, as well as its rich artistic and musical traditions. The text and glossary support readers in learning new social science vocabulary, as prescribed by the Common Core, and back matter resources facilitate further research.
Forests Of Gold
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Author : Ivor Wilks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Forests Of Gold written by Ivor Wilks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Forests of Gold is a collection of essays on the peoples of Ghana with particular reference to the most powerful of all their kingdoms: Asante. Beginning with the global and local conditions under which Akan society assumed its historic form between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, these essays go on to explore various aspects of Asante culture: conceptions of wealth, of time and motion, and the relationship between the unborn, the living, and the dead. The final section is focused upon individuals and includes studies of generals, of civil administrators, and of one remarkable woman who, in 1831, successfully negotiated peace treaties with the British and the Danes on the Gold Coast. The author argues that contemporary developments can only be fully understood against the background of long-term trajectories of change in Ghana.
History Of The Gold Coast And Asante Based On Traditions And Historical Facts
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Author : Carl Christian Reindorf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
History Of The Gold Coast And Asante Based On Traditions And Historical Facts written by Carl Christian Reindorf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with History categories.
The Asante Kingdom
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Author : J. K. Opoku-Ampomah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Asante Kingdom written by J. K. Opoku-Ampomah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Ashanti (African people) categories.