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ISBN:
Category : Ashanti (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
Author: Ann ReedPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317674995
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Processes of globalization have led to diasporic groups longing for their homelands. One such group includes descendants from African ancestors displaced by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, who may be uncertain about their families' exact origins. Traveling home often means visiting African sites associated with the slave trade, journeys full of expectations. The remembrance of the slave trade and pilgrimages to these heritage sites bear resemblance to other diasporic travels that center on trauma, identification, and redemption. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork with both diaspora Africans and Ghanaians, this book explores why and how Ghana has been cast as a pilgrimage destination for people of African descent, especially African Americans. Grounding her research in Ghana’s Central Region where slavery heritage tourism and political ideas promoting incorporation into one African family are prominent, Reed also discusses the perspectives of ordinary Ghanaians, tourism stakeholders, and diasporan "repatriates." Providing ethnographic insight into the transnational networks of people and ideas entangled in Ghana’s pilgrimage tourism, this book also contributes to better understanding the broader global phenomenon of diasporic travel to homeland centers.
African Homecoming
Author: Katharina SchrammPublisher: Left Coast Press
ISBN: 1598747002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.
From Yale to Rastafari
Author: Ras NathanielPublisher:
ISBN: 9781645503620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Anthony "Tony" Blake, a top high school swimming recruit, entered Yale as a freshman in 1989. By 1991 he was the first African American on the All Ivy League Swimming Team, but in 1992 he failed to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials. In February of 1993, three days after leading Yale to its first Conference Championship in fifteen years, and just two months before graduation, Tony Blake disappeared. In the fall of 1995, he returned to Yale, but he was no longer the same person. These letters, for the first time, reveal the new man, Ras Nathaniel who would go on to lead a millennial movement and diplomatic effort at the African Union on behalf of the Rastafari and African Diaspora communities.
Forts and Castles of Ghana
Author: A. van DantzigPublisher: Sedco Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The forts and castles of Ghana form a unique memorial to a precolonial period when representatives of European trading companies bartered as equals with African merchants. It was a colourful episode of world history spanning four centuries, from the fifteenth century Portuguese voyages of discovery to the beginings of the imperial epoch. This books traces the history of more than fifty forts, castles and trading posts built on Ghana's coasts by various European nations. Each entry is accompanied by a descriptive guide and black and white illustrations. Albert van Dantzig, originally from Holland, has lived in Ghana since 1963 and is the senior lecturer in history at the University of Ghana, he is the author of two previous books; The Dutch Participation in the Slave Trade and The Dutch on the Guinea Coast, 1680-1740.
Reclaiming Heritage
Author: Ferdinand de JongPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315421119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity. Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.
TREES AND WOODLANDS OF SOUTH INDIA
Author: Eleni AsoutiPublisher: Left Coast Press
ISBN: 1598742310
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This volume introduces the ecological history of woodland vegetation in South India. It incorporates a critical overview of the theories of ecological on the subcontinent while detailing the history of long-term changes in the tree and shrub vegetation of the Indian peninsula that have resulted from climate change and the impact of human activities on the landscape. The volume also demonstrates the potential of microscopic analysis of archaeological wood charcoal remains for the purpose of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Included in the volume is a practical guide for the microscopic identification of the principal timber species of South India, accompanied by detailed information on the synecology and autecology of native trees and shrubs, and ethnographic evidence on their diverse uses and properties. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete identification guide and many full color illustrations of South Asian trees and shrubs to facilitate analysis.
Routes of Remembrance
Author: Bayo HolseyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226349772
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic? Routes of Remembrance tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade’s absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories, its troubled presentation in the country’s classrooms and nationalist narratives, and its elaboration by the transnational tourism industry. Bayo Holsey discovers that in the past, African involvement in the slave trade was used by Europeans to denigrate local residents, and this stigma continues to shape the way Ghanaians imagine their historical past. Today, however, due to international attention and the curiosity of young Ghanaians, the slave trade has at last entered the public sphere, transforming it from a stigmatizing history to one that holds the potential to contest global inequalities. Holsey’s study will be crucial to anyone involved in the global debate over how the slave trade endures in history and in memory.
Cultures of Commodity Branding
Author: Andrew BevanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315430886
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice.
Archaeology and Women
Author: Sue HamiltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315434113
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, this volume presents a wide diversity of theoretical approaches and methods of study of women in the ancient world, representing a cross section of work being carried out today under the broad banner of gender archaeology. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions is also wide, from Southeast Asia and South America to Western Asia, Egypt and Europe, from Great Britain to Greece, and from 10,000 years ago to the recent past. An ideal sampler for courses dealing with women and archaeology.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA
Author: Timothy ClackPublisher: Left Coast Press
ISBN: 1598742345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. In this volume, a group of archaeologists address a wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.