Asante Kingdom Of Gold

Author : T. C. McCaskie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : 1611635926

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Asante, Kingdom of Gold by T. C. McCaskie Pdf

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.

Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822015221138

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Forests of Gold by Ivor Wilks Pdf

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.

Author : Roslyn A. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art, Ashanti
ISBN : 0300233043

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The Power of Gold by Roslyn A. Walker Pdf

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)

Author : Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1451603738

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The Fall of the Asante Empire by Robert B. Edgerton Pdf

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.

Author : Edward S. Ayensu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024222148

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Ashanti Gold by Edward S. Ayensu Pdf

Author : Philip Koslow
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 079103139X

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Asante by Philip Koslow Pdf

Provides information on the history and people of the Kingdom of Asante.

Author : Carl Christian Reindorf
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1010422146

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History of the Gold Coast and Asante by Carl Christian Reindorf Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : J. K. Opoku-Ampomah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017588638

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The Asante Kingdom by J. K. Opoku-Ampomah Pdf

Author : Robert Z. Cohen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477718803

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Discovering the Asante Kingdom by Robert Z. Cohen Pdf

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.

Author : Edmund Abaka,Kwame Osei Kwarteng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351184052

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The Asante World by Edmund Abaka,Kwame Osei Kwarteng Pdf

The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.

Author : Yvette La Pierre
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822519976

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Ghana in Pictures by Yvette La Pierre Pdf

Introduces through text and photographs the land, history, government, people, and economy of Ghana.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ashanti Region (Ghana)
ISBN : IND:30000050942436

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A Guide to Ashanti by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carl Christian Reindorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000299146

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History of the Gold Coast and Asante, Based on Traditions and Historical Facts by Carl Christian Reindorf Pdf

Author : Kwasi Ampene,Kwadwo Nyantakyi III (Asantehene Sanaahene)
Publisher : Maize Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : 1607853663

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Engaging Modernity by Kwasi Ampene,Kwadwo Nyantakyi III (Asantehene Sanaahene) Pdf

Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene's contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.

Author : Robert Z. Cohen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477718872

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Discovering the Asante Kingdom by Robert Z. Cohen Pdf

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.