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Title:People and Animals: Contstru(ct)ing the Asante Experience
Author:McCaskie, Thomas C.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:62
Issue:2
Pages:221-247
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:Ashanti
ethnozoology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160456
Abstract:The Asante (Ashanti) are a forest-dwelling people of West Africa, now located in the Republic of Ghana. This article deals with the Asante perception of forest animals within a broad cultural and historical context. Such animals were ubiquitous in Asante life and thought, and the article offers an analysis of the readings - phenomenological and ontological - placed upon them. The article also explores the ways in which the constructions placed upon animals were linked to Asante understandings of selfhood and the person, and to readings of myth and history. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. also in French.
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