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Engaging Modernity

Asante in the Twenty-First Century

Prof Kwasi Ampene author Nana Kwadwo Nyantakyi, III author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Michigan Publishing Services

Published:22nd Jun '16

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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.

ISBN: 9781607853664

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330 pages

2nd Revised edition