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Author : J. Alfred Skertchly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Ashanti (African people).
ISBN : MINN:31951P011050782
Author : Skertchly, J. Alfred
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Benin
ISBN : OCLC:185212006
Author : J. A. Skertchly
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0656790075
Excerpt from Dahomey as It Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in That Country Dahomey, however, I was unable to follow up my design, but was condemned to be the recipient of savage honours and to sit an unwilling spectator of the notorious Annual Customs of the country; my feelings being grievously harassed by the thought that I had discovered one of the richest localities in Western Africa, while the polite imprisonment, as it were, to which I was subjected, entirely precluded my making any collection save the meagre one to be obtained in the spacious courtyards of my residence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : J. A. SKERTCHLY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033210269
Author : J. Alfred Skertchly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : OCLC:496768017
Author : J A Skertchly
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014014263
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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. 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. Alfred Skertchly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Benin
ISBN : OCLC:1017399724
Author : J. A. Skertchly
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494135019
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1874 Edition.
Author : Frederick E. Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466804
Author : J. Alfred Skertchly
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783849662851
Mr. Skertchly left England in 1871 for the purpose of making zoological collections on the West Coast of Africa. On his arrival at Whydah, he was induced to go up to Abomey, the capital of Dahomey, for the purpose of instructing the king, Gelele", in the use of some guns that had arrived, on the promise that he would be back at Whydah in eight days. The king, however, detained Mr. Skertchly as an unwilling guest for eight months, treating him with the greatest consideration and kindness, and creating him a prince of the country. The greater part of Mr. Skertchly's work is occupied with a description of the protracted annual " customs," as they are called, of Dahomey, which consist of elaborate and harmless trivial ceremonies, mixed up with much that is revolting and cruel ; the details of these Mr. Skertchly describes in minute detail. He has evidently a considerable admiration both for the Dahomans and Ashantees, especially for the former, whom he considers not nearly so cruel as the latter, though both equally brave and remarkably well- disciplined as soldiers. He defends the Dahomans from the charge of intentional cruelty in the barbarously performed human sacrifices which form so important a part of their customs, and we think he succeeds ; the victims, who are all either criminals, or prisoners of war, are sent as messengers to deceased kings.
Author : Stanley B. Alpern
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814707722
The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Updated with a new preface by the author, Amazons of Black Sparta is the product of meticulous archival research and Alpern's gift for narrative. It will stand as the most comprehensive and accessible account of the woman warriors of Dahomey.
Author : Edna G. Bay
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813923867
Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in the name of the king. The second was the palace, a household of several thousand wives of the king who supported and managed state functions. Looking at Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and the growth of European imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a distinctly Dahomean perspective as she weaves together evidence drawn from travelers' memoirs and local oral accounts, from the religious practices of vodun, and from ethnographic studies of the twentieth century. Wives of the Leopard thoroughly integrates gender into the political analysis of state systems, effectively creating a social history of power. More broadly, it argues that women as a whole and men of the lower classes were gradually squeezed out of access to power as economic resources contracted with the decline of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. In these and other ways, the book provides an accessible portrait of Dahomey's complex and fascinating culture without exoticizing it.
Author : J. a. (J Alfred) Skertchly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361684739
Author : Polanyi Karl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1737276038
The death of Karl Polanyi in 1964, at seventy-seven, curtailed a productive life in the fields economic history and economic anthropology. Some of his students-impressed with his erudition and disregard for the ordinary-described him as "otherworldly". He was founder of the Galilei Society in Budapest, the cradle of the liberal revolutions in Hungary in the first decades of the 20th. century. In the first World War, he was a cavalry officer and after that war he went to Vienna. There he became a columnist and commentator for the Oesterreichische Volkswirt, in charge of analysis of international affairs. For years he read daily The Times, Le Temps, the Frankfurter Zeitung, all the Vienna papers and those from Budapest and others as they were relevant. He emigrated to England where he became a tutor for Oxford University and the University of London and wrote re-analysis of English economic history: The Great Transformation. After World War II, Polanyi came to Columbia University to teach economic history. His courses were always popular and well attended. During his last years at Columbia, and during his early years of retirement, Polanyi was joined by Conrad Arensberg in heading a large interdisciplinary project for the comparative study of economic systems. The volume that resulted was Trade and Market in the Early Empires, a landmark in economic anthropology and economic history. Polanyi's interest in Dahomey stems from one of his students who had contributed two papers on Dahomey to Trade and Market. Polanyi grew interested and, with characteristic thoroughness, read the literature on that West African kingdom. The present book resulted from these last years of productive scholarship. Dahomey and the Slave Trade was prepared for the press by his widow, Ilona Duczynska Polanyi. Foreword vii This book is of vital importance to anthropology for several reasons, the most compelling being that the concerns of history and of anthropology are overlapped in it. Besides making available the economic history of one of the great West African kingdoms, it sets forth some new theory for economic anthropology-particularly Part III, in which Polanyi makes sense of the intricacies of trade between a people with a fully monetized economy, and one without, and those passages in which he adds "house-holding" as a concept to his ideas about the principles of economic integration. Polanyi's position in economic anthropology-not to mention the status he achieved as economic historian, translator of Hungarian literature, man of action, and inspiring teacher-is secure. He has enabled anthropologists to focus their studies of economy on processes of allocation rather than on processes of production, thereby bringing the studies into line with economic theory without merely "applying" economic theory to systems it was not designed to explain. The "release" that resulted from this great stride forward can be compared, for economic anthropology and studies in comparative economics, with the importance of the discovery in the late nineteenth century of the price mechanism itself. The more we know about the workings of other, and strange, economies, the more we can know of our own. Polanyi's work will stand as a major source of comparative insight-the core of anthropological purpose.
Author : Lynne Ellsworth Larsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000899689
Dahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey (1892–1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960–present). The Royal Palace of Dahomey covers more than 108 acres and was surrounded by a wall over two miles long. When the French colonial army arrived in Abomey in 1892, the ruling king set fire to the palace to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Though much of the palace structure was subsequently left to ruin, a portion of it was restored from which the French ruled for a short period. In 1945, the colonial administration transformed part of the palace into a museum, and in 1985 the entire palace was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. This book documents the palace’s physical transformations in relation to its changing purposes and explores how the space maintained religious significance despite change. The palace’s construction, destruction, and restorations demonstrate how architecture can be manipulated and transformed according to the agendas of governments or according to the religious and cultural needs of a populace. The palace functions as a historic record by discussing aspects of documentation, revision, language, and interpretation. Covering almost four centuries of Dahomey’s history, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of African art and architecture, religious studies, west African history, and post-colonial studies.
