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 historiography and critical theory.
| ISBN: | 9780521894326 |
| Publication date: | 30th October 2003 |
| Author: | T C University of Birmingham McCaskie |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 516 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
General and world history African history |
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 historiography and critical theory.
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante features in the following genres: General and world history, African history
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante is available in Paperback, Hardback
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante was written by T C University of Birmingham McCaskie and published by Cambridge University Press
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante has 516 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series