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The cloth of many colored silks : papers on history and society, Ghanaian and Islamic, in honor of Ivor Wilks
- Title
- The cloth of many colored silks : papers on history and society, Ghanaian and Islamic, in honor of Ivor Wilks / edited by John Hunwick and Nancy Lawler.
- Publication
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 404 p. : port., map; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Series in Islam and society in Africa
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Bibliography of the writings of Ivor Wilks": p. 393-400.
- Contents
- Toward a historiography of renewal / Basil Davidson -- Adultery and the state in Asante / Jean Allman -- The naked and the clothed / Esther Goody and Jack Goody -- The individual as stranger in nineteenth-century Anlo : the politics of identity and social advancement in precolonial West Africa / Sandra E. Greene -- The native tribunal of Okorase-Akwapim / Polly Hill -- "When I die, I shall return to my own land" : an "Amina" slave rebellion in the Danish West Indies, 1733-1734 / Ray A. Kea -- Early Asante : is Wilks right? / Peter Shinnie -- "It's mine" and "It's ours" are not the same thing : changing economic relations between spouses in Asante / Victoria B. Tashjian -- Slavery and the state in Asante history / Larry W. Yarak -- Orality, literacy, and literature : a comparison of three West African heroic narratives / Ralph A. Austen -- Borgu in the cultural map of the Muslim diasporas of West Africa / Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias -- Islam and identity in the Kumase Zongo / Robert S. Kramer -- La trahison des clercs? : The "collaboration" of a Suwarian ʻālim / Robert Launay -- Islam and the idea of asylum in Asante / Donna J.E. Maier -- "They have become privileged of God and his Prophet" : Maḥram and Zāwiya in Sudanic Africa / R.S. O'Fahey -- The Asante Nkramo imamate / David Owusu-Ansah -- Politics and poetry : Mohammed Rashid Shaaban's "History of Kumasi" / Enid Schildkrout.
- Call Number
- Sc E 97-365
- ISBN
- 081011299X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96047480
- OCLC
- 35830243
- Title
- The cloth of many colored silks : papers on history and society, Ghanaian and Islamic, in honor of Ivor Wilks / edited by John Hunwick and Nancy Lawler.
- Imprint
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1996.
- Series
- Series in Islam and society in Africa
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references."Bibliography of the writings of Ivor Wilks": p. 393-400.
- Added Author
- Hunwick, John O.Lawler, Nancy Ellen.Wilks, Ivor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 97-365