Kwasi Konadu

Our Own Way in This Part of the World

Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kwasi Konadu centers the life of Ghanaian healer, spiritual leader, and farmer Kofi D¿nk¿ (1913–1995) to tell the biography of his community and how they navigated the changes from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004165
• ISBN-10: 1478004169
• Artikelnr.: 53611626

Autorenporträt

Kwasi Konadu

Inhaltsangabe

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