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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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- Description
- vi, 404 pages : portrait, map; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Series in Islam and society in Africa
- Uniform Title
- Series in Islam and society in Africa.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Bibliography of the writings of Ivor Wilks": p. 393-400.
- Contents
- Introduction / John Hunwick -- Ivor Wilks: A Biographical Note / Nancy Lawler -- Toward a Historiography of Renewal / Basil Davidson -- Adultery and the State in Asante: Reflections on Gender, Class, and Power from 1800 to 1950 / 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: Selected Land Cases, 1918-1919 / 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 Things: 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 Alim / Robert Launay -- Islam and the Idea of Asylum in Asante / Donna J. E. Maier -- "They Have Become Privileged of God and His Prophet": Mahram and Zawiya in Sudanic Africa / R. S. O'Fahey -- The Asante Nkramo Imamate: Conflicting Traditions / David Owusu-Ansah -- Politics and Poetry: Mohammed Rashid Shaaban's "History of Kumasi" / Enid Schildkrout -- Bibliography of the Writings of Ivor Wilks.
- ISBN
- 081011299X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96047480
- OCLC
- ocm35830243
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries