Our Days Dwindle: Memories of My Childhood Days in AsanteABC-CLIO, LLC, 2001 - 239 ページ T. E. Kyei's memoirs trace his life from his early childhood in the opening decade of the twentieth century through Ghana's independence in 1957. The autobiography demonstrates this consummate cultural translator's ability to both intuit the questions raised by those unfamiliar with Asante culture and also seamlessly weave answers to such questions into his narrative. The detail on social and material life contained in Kyei's memoirs is unparalleled in the scholarly literature on Asante. His writings open up fundamental questions about the production (and producers) of historical knowledge about African societies and they will surely inspire a major reassessment of the categories and concepts Africanist scholars have used in their studies of African societies. T.E. Kyei, served as the principal research assistant in the data collection for noted anthropologist Meyer Fortes's Ashanti Social Survey, which was published in the mid-1940s. As Jean Allman explains in her introduction, however, Kyei played a vital role not only in the collection of data Fortes used, but also in its interpretation. In this vivid autobiography, the author presents not only his personal and professional recollections, but also contributes significantly to our understanding of a crucial time period in Ghanaian history. |
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... stream . By my side , my infant brother , Kwabena , was lying on a mat spread in the shade of a big tree . The stream ran close by the town and it was in it that the women of Sekyere- Kwaaman did their washing . Among a group of them ...
... stream . By my side , my infant brother , Kwabena , was lying on a mat spread in the shade of a big tree . The stream ran close by the town and it was in it that the women of Sekyere- Kwaaman did their washing . Among a group of them ...
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... stream up to a point where it met the Nton stream was our favourite place of operation . On a section of the left bank of the former stream was my father's new cocoa farm . With our parents ' consent we left home about mid - day . Being ...
... stream up to a point where it met the Nton stream was our favourite place of operation . On a section of the left bank of the former stream was my father's new cocoa farm . With our parents ' consent we left home about mid - day . Being ...
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... stream was further heightened as I followed Wɔfa Kwame on a round of snare watch . There it was : the stream I had become so familiar with . The stream from which I had , on countless occasions , collected cool , fresh water for my ...
... stream was further heightened as I followed Wɔfa Kwame on a round of snare watch . There it was : the stream I had become so familiar with . The stream from which I had , on countless occasions , collected cool , fresh water for my ...
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Father in an OathSwearing Case | 8 |
Matrimonial Meal AduanKɛseɛ in a Christmas Week | 151 |
My First Brush with Death | 177 |
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