Manuscripts and Documents....

Manuscripts and Publications

by Phil Bartle, PhD
Gye Nyame
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Following the path of least resistance makes all rivers -- and some men -- crooked.
1970 .Tigers in the Classroom; An Annotated Bibliography of Books about Africa for Canadian School Children. BCTF. Vancouver, BC. ("Tigers" was the slang code for mistakes about Africa)
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1970 .The Synthetic Simian. Paper presented to fellow teaching assistants, teachers and students; Anthropology and Sociology Union. Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Cyclostyle. 13 March
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1971 .African Rural Urban Migration; A Decision Making Perspective. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. University of BC. Vancouver.
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1973 . "Kwawu Migration; A Demonstration Model," Manpower and Unemployment Research in Africa. Volume 6 No. 11, pp. 28-43
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1975 .Conjugalization of Matrilineal Societies. Paper presented to the 10th annual conference, Ghana Sociological Association. April. Kumasi
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1976 .Conjugal Roles, Migration and Fertility in an Akan Community. Paper presented to the International Sociological Association. Committee in Family Research, XV, International Seminar. January. Lomé Togo.
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1978  ."Forty Days; The Akan Calendar," Africa. Volume 48, Number 2, pp. 79-84
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1978 .Urban migration and Rural Identity; An Ethnography of a Kwawu Community, Obo, Ghana. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Legon, Accra. University of Ghana. Abstract.
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1978 .Modernization and the Decline in Women's Status. Paper presented to the Conference on Women and Ghanaian Development. National Council on Women and Development. Trinity College. Legon. Accra
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1978 . "Conjugal Relations, Migration and Fertility in an Akan Community, Obo, Ghana," in C. Oppong, S. Adaba, M. Bakombo Priso and J. Mogey (eds), Marriage, Fertility and Parenthood in West Africa. Australian National University Press. PP. 521-532
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1978 . "Inequality and cyclical migration: changing patterns in transitional society,"Ghana Journal of Sociology. Volume 12(1):19-43
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1979 .Kwawu 1874-1888; The Independent years; The Swiss Contribution to British Colonialism in Kwawu. Seminar Paper. Department of History. University of Cape Coast, Ghana
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1980 .An Aural Method to Learn an Oral Language. Afrikastudiecentrum. Leiden. March
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1980 .Who Looks After the Rural Children of Urban Migrants? Some Notes on Households and the Non-Family in a Dispersed Matrilineal Community. Afrikastudiecentrum. Leiden
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1981 . "Cyclical Migration and the Extended Family; A West African Example." In R.B. Mandal, Frontiers in Migration Analysis. Concept Publishing Company. New Delhi pp. 105-140
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1982 .Cultural and Ethnic Variation in the Northern Region, Ghana. NORRIP Sectoral Report. Northern Region Rural Integrated Project. Government of Ghana. Canadian International Development Agency. June, Tamale.
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1983 . "The Universe has Three Souls; Notes on Translating Akan Culture," Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume XIV, Number 2, p.85-114.
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1989 .Facilitating Community Involvement in Water, Sanitation and Health; Handbook on Community Participation Promotion. Canadian International Development Agency. Project 362/11874. Ethiopia-Canada Southern Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project. Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WSSA). April, Awassa, Sidamo
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1992 . with Eva Segerström, "A Community Self-Help Approach; Refugee Children in Pakistan." Children Worldwide. International Catholic Migration Commission. Geneva. (also in French and Spanish).
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1993 .Training Workshops. Women Victims of Violence. UNHCR. May, Nairobi,
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1994 .Principles and Techniques of Social Animation; A Handbook on Community Participation Promotion. Unpublished manuscript. June, Nairobi
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1995 .Towards a Community Management Training Curriculum. Uganda Community Management Programme. United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. October, Kampala
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1995 .Writing Reports; A Guide for Community Mobilisers and Animators (The Why, What and How). Uganda Community Management Programme. United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. December, Kampala
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1995 . with Joshua Ogwang, Guidelines for Financing Community Based Projects. Uganda Community Management Programme. United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. August, Kampala
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1996 .Après l'urgence; la construction d'habitats par les communautés. Centre des Nations Unies les Etablissements Humains (Habitat). Goma, Zaire
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1996 .Income Generation by Micro Enterprise Support; A Community Management Training Methodology, Uganda Community Management Programme. Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Government of Uganda, United Nations Centre for Human Settlement. ISBN: 92-1/131316-3 UN: HS/437/96E. Kampala
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1997 .Training for Strength; A Community Management Training Methodology. Uganda Community Management Programme. Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Government of Uganda, United Nations Centre for Human Settlement. ISBN: 92-1/131319-8 UN: HS/439/96E. Kampala
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1998 .Handbook for Mobilisers. Uganda Community Management Programme. Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Government of Uganda, United Nations Centre for Human Settlement. ISBN: 92-1/131401-1 UN: HS/543/98. Kampala
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1998 .Handbook to Generate Wealth. Uganda Community Management Programme. Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Government of Uganda, United Nations Centre for Human Settlement. ISBN: 92-1/1314/03-8 UN: HS/544/98. Kampala
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1998 .Handbook on Monitoring. Uganda Community Management Programme. Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Government of Uganda, United Nations Centre for Human Settlement. ISBN: 92-1/1314/01-6 UN: HS/545/98. Kampala
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1998 ff..Community Empowerment. Spanish, French. A collection of training materials for community workers. Web site: www.scn.org/cmp/
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2004 .The Sociology of Communities; an Introduction, Camosun Imaging. Victoria, BC.
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2004 .Studies Among the Akan People of West Africa; Community, History, Society, Culture; With a Special Focus on the Kwawu. Seatle Community network. Web site: www.scn.org/rdi/
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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
Central Neighbourhoods of Obo
Kwawu Kodiabe History
Kwawu settlement patterns sketch
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Trade Routes Through Kwawu
Settlement Patterns
Geology of Kwawu

 

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Street Map of Obo
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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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