
Engaging Modernity
Asante in the Twenty-First Century
Maize Books (Publisher)
Published on 22. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-60785-366-4 (ISBN)
Description
Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene's contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Michigan Publishing Services
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
356 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60785-366-4 (9781607853664)
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