Gye Nyame

Estudios Sobre los Akan
Web Links
Web Site Links
by Phil Bartle
Gye Nyame

Following the path of least resistance makes all rivers -- and some men -- crooked.
These are a few links to sites that describe Akan culture and history.
They are very variable in quality.
Listing them here in no way implies that they are endorsed.
Please let me know if you find one that is discontinued.
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Abusua & Nton
http://www.asante.co.uk/archive/clans.htm
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Akans and their Various Abusua
http://asanteman.freeservers.com/custom.html
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Archaeology (archeolink)
http://www.archaeolink.com/african_cultures_kwahu.htm
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Bartle, P., Inequality and cyclical migration: changing patterns in transitional society, Ghana J Sociol. 1978;12(1):19-43

Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=47628&tocid=0&query=ankobra
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Chicago Ghana National Council
http://www.ghananationalcouncil.org/kwahu.htm
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Death
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/AFRICA/AF_death_nurt.html
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Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570799/Ghana.html
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Ghana Tourism
http://www.ghanatourism.gov.gh/regions/highlight_detail.asp?id=2&rdid=108
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Ghana Web
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=54855
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Kompan Adepa
http://www.kompanadepa.org/

Kwahuman Association
http://www.kwahumanassociation-us.org/index.php?name=Web_Links
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Kwawu Ridge School
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Kwawu Man
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/sitemap.php
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Marshall Sahlins, O "pessimismo sentimental" e a experiência etnográfica: por que a cultura não é um "objeto" em via de extinção (parte II), Mana v.3 n.2 Rio de Janeiro oct. 1997

Miescher, S.F. Becoming a Man in Kwawu: Gender, Law, Personhood, and the Construction of Masculinities in Colonial Ghana, 1875-1957 (Akan) [Thesis (PH.D.)--NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, 1997, 653p.]

Obeng, A.S.,  2002, "Women and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Kwawu South District of Ghana," IFE PsychologIa, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2002)

Rattray, Noel Machin
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Machin/
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Sjaak van der Geest, <http://www.sjaakvandergeest.nl/

Sjaak v.d. Geest, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 13 (4): 333-359, 1998 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers, 
Yebisa Wo Fie: Growing old and building a house in the Akan Culture of Ghana

University of iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Kwahu.html
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.The shortest distance is not always a straight line
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Akan Social Organization, Intro
Akan Case Study, Sociology;
Black Apoma;
Correspondence;
Covert Gynocracy;
Cross Cousin Marriage;
Dispersed Community;
Forty Days;
Stool Wives;
Kwasi Bruni;
Akan Social Organization Akan Case Study Black Linguist Staff Ritual Correspondence Covert Gynocracy Cross Cousin Marriage Dispersed Community
Forty Days Kwasi Bruni Odds and Bits Three Souls Publications and Papers Web Links Why Obo
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