Konadu Our Own Way in This Part of the World

Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0563-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Konadu, Kwasi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Libation: Matters Connected with Our Culture 17
2. Homelands: In Search of Past Events 44
3. Tools of the Trade: I was a Blacksmith. Before I Became [a Healer] 73
4. Medicine, Marriage, and Politics: Assist this State to have Progress 107
5. Independences: Never Mingled Himself in Local Politics 137
6. Anthropologies of Medicine and Africa: When the Whiteman First Came 166
7. Uncertain Moments and Memory: Our Ancestral Spirits, Come and Have Drink 195
Epilogue 228
Notes 239
Bibliography 287
Notes 307

Über Autor(innen)

Kwasi Konadu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University and the author and editor of several books, including The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and Transatlantic Africa, 1440–1888.