Author: A. S. DuthiePublisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bibliography of GBE
Author: A. S. DuthiePublisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Comparative Phonology of Gbe
Author: Hounkpati B.C. CapoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110870533
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, No 14).
A World Bibliography of Geographical Bibliographies
Author: Takashi OkunoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Culture and the Senses
Author: Prof. Kathryn GeurtsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093654X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of "intuition," comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu. The kind of mind-body dichotomy that pervades Western European-Anglo American cultural traditions and philosophical thought is absent. Geurts relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense. After this nuanced exploration of an Anlo-Ewe theory of inner states and their way of delineating external experience, readers will never again take for granted the "naturalness" of sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell.
The Journal of West African Languages
Author: Korle Meets the Sea
Author: Mary Esther Kropp DakubuPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195345185
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.
The Languages of Ghana
Author: Mary E. Kropp DakubuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317406036
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the general introduction, it contains chapters on each of the individually recognised families of languages spoken in Ghana: Gur, Volta-Comoé, Gbe, Ga-Dangme, Central-Tongo and Mande. An additional chapter outlines the use of non-indigenous languages in the country.
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
Author: Kate SkinnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316299570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French-administered territories. By the 1950s a political movement led by the Ewe ethnic group called for the unification of British and French Togoland into an independent multiethnic state. Despite the efforts of the Ewe, the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was ultimately merged with the Gold Coast to become Ghana, the first independent nation in sub-Saharan Africa; French Togoland later declared independence as the nation of Togo. Based on interviews with former political activists and their families, access to private papers, and a collection of oral and written propaganda, this book examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland unification. Kate Skinner challenges the marginalization of the Togoland question from popular and academic analyses of postcolonial politics and explores present-day ramifications of the contingencies of decolonization.
Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
Author: Katharine Alexandra Collier SkinnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107074630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland reunification, in which the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was to be separated from the Gold Coast to join with French Togoland in a new independent African state.