Manuscripts and Documents

Manuscripts
by Phil Bartle
Gye Nyame

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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis.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 Unpublished PhD Thesis.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
Men III; Hunting
Men IV; Transport
Oil Palm
Palm Farming
Palmwine Tapping
Palmwine Selling
Other Palm Products
Cocoa
Gender Comensality
Modern Skills
People
Kids
Gender, Introduction
Food
Farmer. Farming
Cooking Marketing Clay  
Wood
Weaving Transport Introduction: Oil Palm Tree Farming the oil palm Tapping: Collecting the palm sap
Marketing: Palm wine seller Other Palm Products Cocoa Industry Modern Skills
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Akan Social Organization, Intro
Akan Case Study, Sociology;
Black Apoma;
Correspondence;
Covert Gynocracy;
Cross Cousin Marriage;
Dispersed Community;
Stool Wives;
Forty Days;
Kwasi Bruni;
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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
Men III; Hunting
Men IV; Transport
Oil Palm
Palm Farming
Palmwine Tapping
Palmwine Selling
Other Palm Products
Cocoa
Gender Comensality
Modern Skills
People
Kids
Gender, Introduction
Food
Farmer. Farming
Cooking Marketing Clay  
Wood
Weaving Transport Introduction: Oil Palm Tree Farming the oil palm Tapping: Collecting the palm sap
Marketing: Palm wine seller Other Palm Products Cocoa Industry Modern Skills
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Akan History; Introduction;
Rain Forest Prehistory;
Settlement Patterns;
Forty Days;
Round to Square;
Historical Map;
The Afram, North of the Escarpment;
Kwasi Bruni. Corn and the Europeans;
Swiss Missionaries,  The Basel Pietists;
The railway, Revolutionary Effect on History;
Law in Ghana,  African and European origins;
Covert Gynocracy, Has Women's Power declined?
San ko fa
Prehistory in the Rain Forest
Settlement Patterns
Forty Days
Fihankra
Kwawu Kodiabe History
The Afram
Geographic Food Taboos
Swiss Missionaries
Rail
Oba ne oman -- Woman is the state
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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Social Organization
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