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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12153747.
- catalog contributor b12153748.
- catalog coverage "Adeebeba (Ghana) History.".
- catalog coverage "Adeebeba (Ghana) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-269) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 277 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Asante identities.".
- catalog identifier "0253214963 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0253340306 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0748615105".
- catalog isFormatOf "Asante identities.".
- catalog isPartOf "International African library ; 25".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Asante identities.".
- catalog spatial "Adeebeba (Ghana) History.".
- catalog spatial "Adeebeba (Ghana) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "966.7 21".
- catalog subject "Ashanti (African people) History.".
- catalog subject "Ashanti (African people) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "DT507 .M33 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Asante identities : history and modernity in an African village, 1850-1950 / T.C. McCaskie.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".