Asante, Kingdom of Gold : Essays in the History of an African Culture / Tom McCaskie, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, U.K.
People and animals : constru(ct)ing the Asante experience -- Innovational eclecticism : the Asante empire and Europe in the nineteenth century -- Social rebellion and the inchoate rejection of history : some reflections on the career of Opon Asibe Tutu -- The history of the Manwere Nkoa at Drobonso -- The creation of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ltd., 1890-1910 : an episode in the colonial impact upon Asante -- Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh's account to the Asanteman of his exile from Kumase (1896-1924) : a document with commentary -- A contemporary account in Twi of the Akompi Sa of 1863 : a document with commentary -- Office, land, and subjects in the history of the Manwere Fekuo of Kumase : an essay in the political economy of the Asante state -- Time and the calendar in nineteenth-century Asante : an exploratory essay -- State and society, marriage and adultery : some considerations towards a social history of pre-colonial Asante -- Anti-witchcraft cults in Asante : an essay in the social history of an African people -- Accumulation, wealth, and belief in Asante history : I. To the close of the nineteenth century -- R.S. Rattray and the construction of Asante history : an appraisal -- Ahyiamu -- 'a place of meeting' : an essay on process and event in the history of the Asante state -- Drake's fake : a curiosity concerning a spurious visit to Asante in 1839 -- Power and dynastic conflict in Mampon -- Accumulation, wealth, and belief in Asante history : II. The twentieth century -- Komfo Anokye of Asante : meaning, history, and philosophy in an African society -- Death and the Asantehene : a historical meditation -- Asantes'm : reflections on discourse and text in Africa -- Inventing Asante -- Armah's The healers and Asante history -- Nananom Mpow of Mankessim : an essay in Fante history -- People and animals : constru(ct)ing the Asante experience -- Telling the tale of Osei Bonsu : an essay on the making of Asante oral history. Custom, tradition, and law in precolonial Asante -- Asante and Ga : the history of a relationship -- Akwankwaa : Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in his life and times -- The last will and testament of Kofi Sraha : a note on accumulation and inheritance in colonial Asante -- Trees and the domestication of power in Asante thought -- The consuming passions of Kwame Boakye: an essay on agency and identity in Asante history -- The golden stool at the end of the nineteenth century : setting the record straight -- Lake Bosomtwe, Asante : a historical reading -- Agyeman Prempeh before the exile -- Sakrobundi Ne Aberewa : Sie Kwaku the witch-finder in the Akan world -- Asen Praso in history and memory -- Anglicanism and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh -- Writing, reading, and printing death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante -- Denkyira in the making of Asante, c. 1660-1720 -- The life and afterlife of Yaa asantewaa -- Asante history : a personal impression of forty years -- Akwantemfi -- 'in mid-journey' : an Asante shrine today and its clients -- Gun culture in Kumasi -- Asante, Apagyafie and president Kufuor of Ghana : a historical interpretation -- Asante origins, Egypt, and the Near East : an idea and its history -- African American psychologists, the Atlantic slave trade, and Ghana : a history of the present -- 'Water wars' in Kumasi, Ghana -- On Mouri Beach in 1821 : the British and Empire in the Gold Coast -- Local knowledge : an Akuapem Twi history of Asante -- Telling the tale of Osei Bonsu : an essay on the making of Asante oral history.
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