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Author : Timothy F. Garrard
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Akan Weights and the Gold Trade written by Timothy F. Garrard and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Goldweights written by Tom Phillips and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of these lively and imaginative artifacts.
Author : Georges Niangoran-Bouah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Akan world of gold weights written by Georges Niangoran-Bouah and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Akan Gold Weights written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis discusses the value and meanings of cultural artifacts from the Akan material culture known as gold weight. Before colonial contact, the gold weights were essential objects in the everyday lives of the Ashanti, also known as the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa. The weights were called abrammuo in the Akan language, made of brass alloy mounted with geometrical motifs and figurative symbols. The abrammuo, as a set of miniature weights, were kept in the futuo, a leather bag that also contains additional apparatus such as brass spoons, scales, brushes, feathers, gold pans, etc. According to Garrard (1980), "as long as gold dust remained a currency in Akan society, gold weights has been significant for weighing gold at the market or during social, and political arrangements such as birth, rites of passage, deaths, and funerals, during marriage or for state fines and toll purposes" (Garrard 1980,171-176). In other contexts, the gold weights played the role of an agent of social, economic and political stability among the Akan and within the gold trade system network. With the fall of the Ashanti kingdom to British colonialism, a significant number of weights lost their primary functions and found their way into a net of western art collectors, private art galleries, and museum collections. I argue that the value (s) embedded in the weights in traditional Ashanti culture were traded for a western canon of artistic and aesthetic values. My inquiry focuses on the changing meaning and significance of the gold weights through western museum representation and exhibition
Author : Georges Niangoran-Bouah
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (851 download)
Download or read book L'univers akan des poids à peser l'or: Les paids dans la société written by Georges Niangoran-Bouah and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William ¬Fot.¬ Kohler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (825 download)
Download or read book The Art of Akan Goldweights written by William ¬Fot.¬ Kohler and published by . This book was released on 20?? with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oberdiek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825857257
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
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Author : Eric De Kolb
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ashanti Goldweights written by Eric De Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans van der Storm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Akan Pseudo Weights written by Hans van der Storm and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Art of Goldweights written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : La Salle University. Art Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Akan Goldweights written by La Salle University. Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy F. Garrard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Akan Goldweights from the Bonnefoy Collection written by Timothy F. Garrard and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saki Mafundikwa
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780977282760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Afrikan Alphabets written by Saki Mafundikwa and published by Mark Batty Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to popular demand for the first edition, Mark Batty Publisher proudly announces a reissue of this title in paperback. Because the book sets the record straight about how colonial powers suppressed the rich cultural and artistic histories of Afrikan alphabets, this title should appeal to individual readers as well as schools and universities. Both entertaining and anecdotal, Afrikan Alphabets presents a wealth of highly graphical, attractive and inspiring illustrations. Writing systems across the Afrikan continent and the Diaspora are analyzed and illustrated; syllabaries, paintings, pictographs, ideographs and symbols are compared and contrasted. This colourful, extensively illustrated and informative visual journey will be of interest to everyone seeking inspiration from, or more information about, Afrikan culture and art.
Author : Kate O'Halloran
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825130878
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Hands-on Culture of West Africa written by Kate O'Halloran and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six different world cultures are the focus of Hands-On Culture: Japan, Mexico and Central America, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece and Rome. These colorful volumes examine each culture's art, science, history, geography, and language and literature. From making sushi to designing a drum to reading hieroglyphics, students use an array of hands-on activities to grow more culturally aware and appreciative if differences among peoples. Topics in this volume include: West African money Folktales and Music Benin: appliqué art of Dahomey Nigeria: humor and politics West African cooking: plaintains and rice See other Hands-on Culture titles
Author : Kwasi Konadu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199889279
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Akan Diaspora in the Americas written by Kwasi Konadu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his groundbreaking study of the Akan diaspora, Kwasi Konadu demonstrates how this cultural group originating in West Africa both engaged in and went beyond the familiar diasporic themes of maroonage, resistance, and freedom. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Akan never formed a majority among other Africans in the Americas. But their leadership skills in war and political organization, efficacy in medicinal plant use and spiritual practice, and culture archived in the musical traditions, language, and patterns of African diasporic life far outweighed their sheer numbers. Konadu argues that a composite Akan culture calibrated between the Gold Coast and forest fringe made the contributions of the Akan diaspora possible. The book examines the Akan experience in Guyana, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, former Danish and Dutch colonies, and North America, and how those early experiences foreground the modern engagement and movement of diasporic Africans and Akan people between Ghana and North America. Locating the Akan variable in the African diasporic equation allows scholars and students of the Americas to better understand how the diasporic quilt came to be and is still evolving.
Author : Marija Ličina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788685249129
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Akan goldweights written by Marija Ličina and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte von Graffenried
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Akan Goldgewichte im Bernischen Historischen Museum written by Charlotte von Graffenried and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
