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Author : Angela Christian
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Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book Facets of Ghanaian Culture: Ashanti Gold Weights written by Angela Christian and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Christian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Ashanti Gold Weights written by Angela Christian and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Christian
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Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Ashanti Gold Weights written by Angela Christian and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Christian
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Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Facets of Ghanaian Culture written by Angela Christian and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph S.Kaminski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351956876
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana written by Joseph S.Kaminski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.
Author : Peter Sarpong
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ghana in Retrospect written by Peter Sarpong and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch
Publisher : G. K. Hall
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Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Total Pages : 140 pages
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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
Download or read book Facets of Ghanaian Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ghana National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. V. Asihene
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Traditional Art of Ghana written by E. V. Asihene and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the fine arts and handicrafts of a small republic in western Africa is important for its valuable information about the traditional art and the renewed interest in its preservation and continuation by native artists today.
Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harrie M. Leyten
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Goldweights from Ghana and the Ivory Coast written by Harrie M. Leyten and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Eric De Kolb
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Ashanti Goldweights written by Eric De Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sonia Bleeker
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Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book The Ashanti of Ghana written by Sonia Bleeker and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells about the life, religion, talking drums, language, crafts, occupations, legends, and history of the Ashanti.
