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Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.

Witchcraft --- Witches --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- Sexism in witchcraft trials --- Akan (African people) --- Social aspects --- Violence against. --- Social conditions.

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Provides an ethnography of royal rhetoric and the language and politics of representation among the Akan of Ghana. This book shows the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems. It shows the art of the okyeame to be not simply a genre of speaking, but a set of cultural practices.

AKAN (AFRICAN PEOPLE) --- SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, ETC. --- NEGOTIATION --- ORAL TRADITION --- GHANA --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Akan (African People) --- Speeches, Addresses, Etc. --- Negotiation --- Oral Tradition --- Ghana --- Social Science --- Literary Collections --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Akan (african people) --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Oral tradition --- Social science --- Literary collections --- Language arts & disciplines

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615100);Asante Identitiesis an account of life in the Asante village of Ade beba in West Africa during a century of rapid change, told as far as possible in the words of the villagers themselves. Asante is the most intensely studied of all sub-Saharan African cultures, and this book takes Asante and African historiography to new levels of reconstruction , analysis and understanding. This is the most closely focused historical study thus far achieved of African people engaging with issues of selfhood, identity and agency in an era that saw the continent fall under European domination.Key FeaturesMajor contribution to African studies in its historical depth and analytic sophisticationA book of wider interest to non-Africanist historians, social scientists and othersConsiders issues of broad and current concern never before studied at this levelAsante Identities is a volume in the International African Library, a major monograph series from the International African Institute which complements its quarterly periodical Africa, the premier journal in the field of African Studies."

Ashanti (African people) --- Achanti (African people) --- Asante (African people) --- Asanti (African people) --- Ashante Twi (African people) --- Ashantee (African people) --- Ashantis (African people) --- Akan (African people) --- Ethnology --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Adeeba (Ghana)

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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Akans (African people) --- IFO-Sananda (Religious group) --- Para (Surinam) --- Para (Suriname) --- -Negroes --- Twi Fante (African people) --- Fanti (African people) --- -Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- IFO-Sananda (Religious group). --- -Comparative religion --- Akan (African people) --- Blacks --- Religions --- 291 --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- District Para (Suriname) --- Religion. --- Religions. --- Black persons --- Black people --- Akan (African people) - Religion --- Blacks - Suriname - Para - Religion --- Para (Suriname) - Religion

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Deaf culture --- Deaf --- Akan (African people) --- Ethnology --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #KVHA:Taalkunde; Gebarentaal --- #KVHA:Cultuurgeschiedenis; Gebarentaal --- Akans (African people) --- Twi Fante (African people) --- Fanti (African people) --- Deaf-mutes --- Deaf people --- Deafness --- Hearing impaired --- Deafblind people --- Deaf subculture --- Subculture --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social life and customs. --- Marriage --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Patients --- Culture --- ethnology --- Social life and customs