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Title: | Rural Industry and Appropriate Technology: The Lessons of Narrowloom Ashanti Weaving |
Author: | Browne, Angela W. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 82 |
Issue: | 326 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 29-41 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | weaving Development and Technology Architecture and the Arts Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721476 |
Abstract: | The Ghanaian development plan of 1975/6-1979/80 has identified small-scale rural industries as important in industrialisation strategy. Yet a major problem facing the Ghanaian government is a dearth of'information on small-scale industries and traditional technologies upon which effective policies for improvement can be based. The present paper aims to provide such information for one such industry - narrow-loom weaving - focussing attention on the technology and organisation of the craft and the problems inherent in attempting to improve it. Notes,. photogr., tab. |