Author: Peggy Appiah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592211241
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Asantes and to a large extent the Akans of Ghana are a proverbs people, who over the past 400 years built empires and civilizations. One can fully understand and appreciate the philosophy and other cultures of these African people without understanding their proverbs. In ancient days, education in many African traditional societies involved oral not written communication. Even today, this is still the case, since proverbs continue to function as a way to reinforce moral and social precepts, and they teach the philosophy and ways of the community, its customs, and its prejudices. The proverbs collected in this book provide a richness of poetic imagery and vision, distilling the best of Asante language and oral tradition. In addition, they give inspiration to drum and horn language and provide depth to the funeral dirges and the appellations of Asante and Akan chiefs and the traditional political and religious rulers. They are also used symbolically in many items of stool paraphernalia, where visual designs have associated proverbial meanings.
Bu Me Be
Author: Peggy Appiah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592211241
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Asantes and to a large extent the Akans of Ghana are a proverbs people, who over the past 400 years built empires and civilizations. One can fully understand and appreciate the philosophy and other cultures of these African people without understanding their proverbs. In ancient days, education in many African traditional societies involved oral not written communication. Even today, this is still the case, since proverbs continue to function as a way to reinforce moral and social precepts, and they teach the philosophy and ways of the community, its customs, and its prejudices. The proverbs collected in this book provide a richness of poetic imagery and vision, distilling the best of Asante language and oral tradition. In addition, they give inspiration to drum and horn language and provide depth to the funeral dirges and the appellations of Asante and Akan chiefs and the traditional political and religious rulers. They are also used symbolically in many items of stool paraphernalia, where visual designs have associated proverbial meanings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592211241
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Asantes and to a large extent the Akans of Ghana are a proverbs people, who over the past 400 years built empires and civilizations. One can fully understand and appreciate the philosophy and other cultures of these African people without understanding their proverbs. In ancient days, education in many African traditional societies involved oral not written communication. Even today, this is still the case, since proverbs continue to function as a way to reinforce moral and social precepts, and they teach the philosophy and ways of the community, its customs, and its prejudices. The proverbs collected in this book provide a richness of poetic imagery and vision, distilling the best of Asante language and oral tradition. In addition, they give inspiration to drum and horn language and provide depth to the funeral dirges and the appellations of Asante and Akan chiefs and the traditional political and religious rulers. They are also used symbolically in many items of stool paraphernalia, where visual designs have associated proverbial meanings.
Bu Me Be̳
Author: Peggy Appiah
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
ISBN: 9780955507922
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : ak
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most extensive bi-lingual Twi Proverbs Dictionary published since JG Christaller's book was first published in 1879. Kwame Anthony Appiah's introduction demonstrates how these proverbs can be interpreted within the tested and contested theories of meaning and literary production to show how they compare with philosophical musings from ancient Greece to England. An invaluable collection of over 7000 proverbs that speak to the nuances of Akan and Asante life, thought, belief and social organisation.
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
ISBN: 9780955507922
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : ak
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most extensive bi-lingual Twi Proverbs Dictionary published since JG Christaller's book was first published in 1879. Kwame Anthony Appiah's introduction demonstrates how these proverbs can be interpreted within the tested and contested theories of meaning and literary production to show how they compare with philosophical musings from ancient Greece to England. An invaluable collection of over 7000 proverbs that speak to the nuances of Akan and Asante life, thought, belief and social organisation.
Bu Me be
Author: Peggy Appiah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, Akan
Languages : ak
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, Akan
Languages : ak
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Scot. Text S.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Legends of the Saints
Author: John Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare
Author: William Allan Neilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Annals
Author: Harvard College Observatory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
List of quarto publications, exclusive of the Annals, made by the officers of the observatory from 1877 to 1896, with references to the work of the Blue Hill observatory from 1885 to 1895: v. 30, p. 3-8.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
List of quarto publications, exclusive of the Annals, made by the officers of the observatory from 1877 to 1896, with references to the work of the Blue Hill observatory from 1885 to 1895: v. 30, p. 3-8.
Yale Oriental Series
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
St. Nicholas
Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Cursor Mundi
Author: Richard Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description