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State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
T. C. McCaskie
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Description for State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
Paperback. A detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. Series Editor(s): Anderson, David; Brown, Carolyn; Clapham, Christopher; Gomez, Michael; Manning, Patrick; Robinson, David; Villalon, Leonardo A. Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 516 pages, 12 b/w illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; HBG; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 772.
Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T. C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. It is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of ... Read more
Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T. C. McCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. It is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
Series
African Studies
Number of Pages
516
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521894326
SKU
V9780521894326
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Reviews for State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
"...an extremely detailed and skillful reconstruction of the Asante past." American Historical Review "This intellectually ambitious and feisty book seeks to provide an alternative interpretation of Asante history during its centuries of independence and thereby to model a transforming approach to African historiography....McCaskie's analytical argument is embedded in richly detailed and voluminously annotated Asante cultural and historical data ... Read more