Synopses & Reviews
The Cloth of Many Colored Silks collects a wide variety of scholarship dealing with Ghanaian history and society, including papers by Basil Davidson, Jean Allman, Esther Goody and Jack Goody, Sandra E. Greene, Polly Hill, Ray A. Kea, Peter Shinnie, Victoria B. Tashjian, Larry W. Yarak, Ralph A. Austen, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Robert S. Kramer, Robert Launay, Donna J.E. Maier, R.S. O'Fahey, David Owusu-Ansah, and Enid Schildkrout.
Table of Contents
Introduction John Hunwick
Ivor Wilks: A Biographical Note
Nancy Lawler
Thematic Essay Toward a Historiography of Renewal
Basil Davidson
Papers on Ghanaian History and Society
Adultery and the State in Asante: Reflections
on Gender, Class, and Power from 1800 to Jean Allman
The Naked and the Clothed Esther Goody
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, Polly Hill
"When I die, I shall return to my own land":
An "Amina" Slave Rebellion in the Danish West
Indies, 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
Papers on Islamic Themes
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
Notes on Contributors