Gye Nyame

Estudios Sobre los Akan
Web Site Links
Web Site Links

by Phil Bartle, PhD
......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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Maps
Map of Ghana  |  Kwawu Historical  |  Historical Trade Routes  | Sketch of Kwawu  |  Kwawu Geology | Obo Map | Obo Central | Settlement Patterns
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Map of Ghana
Ghana
Central Neighbourhoods of Obo
Obo Central
Kwawu Kodiabe History
Historical
Kwawu
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Trade Routes Through Kwawu
Trade
Settlement Patterns
 Settlements
Geology of Kwawu

 
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Geology
Street Map of Obo
Obo Streets
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The Spirit in Us; Introduction.
Gods I; Tutelary Spirits;
Gods II; Nansing;		 Gods III; Health and Fertility;
Gods IV; Ohantrase;
Ancestors I; Death and Beyond;		 Ancestors II; Afahye;
Geographic Taboos;
Gyenyame;
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Introduction; The Spirits In Us
Local Gods are Rivers, Mountains and Caves
Nansin, A River Inside a Cave
Health and Fertility, the Job of Gods
Afahye (Festival) in Ohantrase, Obo
Ancestors Were Once Elders
Festival at Ohantrase, Outside the Chief's Palace
Gyenyame = Unless God
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See: Gender
Women I; Food
Women II;  Farming
Women III: Cooking; 2		 Women IV: Marketing
Women V; Clay
Men I; Wood
Men II; Weaving		 Kids
Cocoa
Oil Palm
Housing		 Military
People
Transport
Modern Skills
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Gender, Kofi Twum
Food
Farmer. Farming
 Cooking Marketing Clay
Wood
Weaving
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Black Apoma;
Correspondence;
Covert Gynocracy;
Cross Cousin Marriage;
Dispersed Community;
Forty Days;
Kwasi Bruni;
Odds 'n Bits;
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Swiss
Cocoa Industry
Corn
Associations and Clubs
Modern Skills
Military
People, Young Friends
 Carrying Water; Children's Chores
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The West African Oil Palm (Abe)
Introduction  |  Farming  |  Tapping  |  Marketting  |  Other Uses
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Introduction: Oil Palm Tree Farming the oil palm Tapping: Collecting the palm sap Marketing: Palm wine seller Other Palm Products
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The Afram (North of the Escarpment)
Kwasi Bruni. (Corn and the Europeans)
Swiss Missionaries; (The Basel Pietists)
Trains; (A Revolutionary Effect on History)		 Dorothy and Albert
Round to Square
Forty Days
Prehistory
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Transport
Rail
Roads
The Afram
 The Bartles in Ghana
Housing Technology
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Bartles:  In The Rain Forest | Dancing With Gods | With The Queen Mother | Drinking Palm Wine | With Kontihene's Mother | On Trek | Dorothy and Albert | Bio.
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Link to Sociology Readings
Site Map Correspond with us. Link to the Home Page of this web site
2008.03.23.
Following the path of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked

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Map of Ghana
Ghana
Central Neighbourhoods of Obo
Obo Central
Kwawu Kodiabe History
Historical
Kwawu
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Trade Routes Through Kwawu
Trade
Settlement Patterns
 Settlements
Geology of Kwawu

 
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Geology
Street Map of Obo
Obo Streets
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El espíritu dentro de nosotros. Introducción
Dioses I: Deidades tutelares
Dioses II: Nansing
Dioses III: Salud y fertilidad
Dioses IV: Ohantrase		 Antepasados I: Muerte y más allá
Antepasados II: Afahye
Geographic Taboos
Gyenyame
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Introduction; The Spirits In Us
Deidades, Local Gods are Rivers, Mountains and Caves
Nansin, A River Inside a Cave
Salud, Health and Fertility, the Job of Gods
Fiestas, Afahye (Festival) in Ohantrase, Obo
Antepasados, Ancestors Were Once Elders
Jefes, Festival at Ohantrase, Outside the Chief's Palace
Gyenyame = A menos que Dios...
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Ver: Sexos
Mujeres I: Comida
Mujeres II: Agricultura
Mujeres III: Cocina; 2		 Mujeres IV: Comercio
Mujeres V: Arcilla
Hombres I: Madera
Hombres II: Tejido		 Gente
Cacao
Niños
Casas		 Nuevas técnicas
Aceite de palma
Transporte
Ejército
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Sexos, Kofi Twum
Comida
Agricultura
 Cocina Comericio Arcilla
Madera
Tejido
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Apoma negro
Cuarenta días
Correspondencia
Comunidad dispersa
Matrimonio entre cruzados
Ginocracia encubierta
Enlaces web (inglés)
Kwasi Bruni
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Suizo
Cacao
Maiz
Asociaciones
Técnicas
Ejército
Personas
Niños
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La palma de aceite (abe) Introducción  |  Cultivando  | Taladrando  |  Comercializando  |  Otros
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Abe Intro Cultivando Taladrando Comercializando, Nana Noah Adofo II, Kontihene of Obo Otros
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Afram (Norte de la cordillera)  | .Misioneros suizos (Pietistas de Basilea)  |  Tren (Un efecto revolucionario en la Gold Coast)  | Dorothy y Albert
Transporte
Tren
Carreteras
Afram
Los Bartle
Vivienda
Los Bartle: En el bosque tropical, Bailando con Dioses, Con la reina madre, Bebiendo vino de palma, Con la madre de Kontihene, De viaje, Dorothy y Albert, Biografía.
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.Modulos
.Sociology Readings
Página principal
Potenciation communitaria
Site Map
Contacto en Espanol.
 Ve a la gente
2008-03-27.
Seguir el camino de la menor resistencia hace que todos los ríos -y algunos hombres- se tuerzan.
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