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The book is oriented toward the creative activitiesof the individual composers in the Akan society whomake profound contributions through theircompositions to sustain the music tradition. It ispremised on the fact that they also, like all othercreative individuals, have the natural capacity toeffect changes in their environments. It thusexamines how these musicians who, although they workwithin the constraints imposed by the artisticparameters of their culture, are able to generate andadd new ideas into the existing musical elements. Ittherefore outlines several factors that underpin thepresent-day concept of African Music, such as, forexample, the rise of new distinctions in the musicalpractices, and how such distinctions have becomeparts of the characteristics of the entire "way oflife" of modern Africa. It thus shows that, apartfrom the traditional social contexts which Africanmusic may have adopted, there has also arisen newsocial contexts peculiar to the modern life of thecommunities, which have provided further outlets forcomposing and performing the African music. ... Read more

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Economic and monetary crisis in Indonesia; collected articles. ... Read more

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In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers, implicitness, indirectness, vagueness, prolixity, ambiguity and even avoidance are even more cherished and preferred especially when the subject matter of what is being communicated is difficult or face-threatening. Verbal indirection, the communicational strategy in which interactants abstain from directness in order to avoid crises or in order to communicate 'difficulty', and thus make their utterances consistent with face and politeness, is pervasive in African (Akan) social interaction. This groundbreaking book explores various linguistic and discursive devices speakers employ when engaged in indirectness.Among the linguistic and discursive strategies discussed are the use of: pronoun mismatching, nouns (especially proverbial names and other names with indirect meanings), evasions, hedges and various forms of pre sequences (which help to eliminate perceived obstacles to making such speech acts as announcements, requests, or invitations), acknowledgement of imposition, proverbs, metaphors, innuendoes, euphemisms, circumlocution, riddles, tales, hyperbolas, and communication through intermediaries or proxies. ... Read more

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Asante Catholicism focuses on the interaction between post-conciliarRoman Catholicism and Asante religion of Ghana, with its implications forself-definition and cultural renewal. It begins by exploring Asante culturalhistory, and depicting how their religo-political institutions were affectedduring contact with European traders, missionaries, and colonial authorities.It further highlights the mutual shaping between Catholicism and theindigenous Asante worldview. The fusion between Christianity and Asante wayscreates conflict, innovation, and modification as the Church reinterpretsChristian values and figures along Asante notions. For example, Jesus Christis reconfigured as kurotwiamansa (leopard).Sections on the interface between Catholic beliefs and Asante socio-politicalinstitutions are particularly important for missiologists.Finally, the book discusses religious vocabulary, spirituality, theology, andthe role of community during social and religious change. ... Read more

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Title: Fanti Customary Laws, a Brief Introduction to the Principles of the Native Laws and Customs of the Fanti and Akan Districts of the Gold Coast, With a Report of Some Cases Thereon Decided in the Law CourtsPublisher: London, ClowesPublication date: 1904Subjects: Gold coast -- LawNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Akan," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Akan in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Akan when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Akan, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more