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

This Study Of The People Of The Asante Village Of Adeebeba - Now Part Of Kumase, Ghana's Second City - Over The Century 1850 To 1950 Is Unparalleled In Its Wealth Of Detail About The Concerns Of Ordinary African Men And Women In A Period Of Tumultuous Change. In Exploring Their Testimony In All Its Rich Diversity, Mccaskie Draws Out Its Larger Implications For The Understanding Of Asante Identities In A World Overtaken By Colonialism And Modernity. Community And Belonging, Politics And Belief, Rural And Urban Lifestyles, Money, Mobility And Sex, And All The Other Daily Concerns Of Adeebeba Villagers Are Discussed In Depth. The Result Is A Book That In Unequalled In Its Recuperation Of The African Past Through African Voices.--jacket. 1. Introduction -- 2. 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 -- 3. Adeebeba Lives: Contextualising Community And Identity. Reference, Inference And Community. Reference, Inference And Identity. Witnessing To Then And Now -- 4. 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 -- 5. Conclusion. Scrambling For Money: Kumase After 1945. T.c. Mccaskie. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [260]-269) And Index. GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615100);Asante Identitiesis an account of life in the Asante village of Ade beba in West Africa during a century of rapid change, told as far as possible in the words of the villagers themselves. Asante is the most intensely studied of all sub-Saharan African cultures, and this book takes Asante and African historiography to new levels of reconstruction , analysis and understanding. This is the most closely focused historical study thus far achieved of African people engaging with issues of selfhood, identity and agency in an era that saw the continent fall under European domination.Key FeaturesMajor contribution to African studies in its historical depth and analytic sophisticationA book of wider interest to non-Africanist historians, social scientists and othersConsiders issues of broad and current concern never before studied at this levelAsante Identities is a volume in the International African Library, a major monograph series from the International African Institute which complements its quarterly periodical Africa, the premier journal in the field of African Studies." Frontmatter List of Maps and Figures (page vi) Preface (page vii) 1 Introduction (page 1) 2 Adeεbeba Lives: The Nineteenth Century (page 24) 3 Adeεbeba Lives: Contextualising Community and Identity (page 95) 4 Adeεbeba Lives: The Twentieth Century (page 124) 5 Conclusion (page 201) Abbreviations (page 241) Notes (page 242) Bibliography (page 260) Index (page 270) On 20 January 1947 in London the Royal Geographical Society played host to the Royal Anthropological Institute.