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by Phil Bartle

Utilities:

Sociology:

Black Apoma (Blackened Ancestral Linguist Staff Ritual);
Correspondence (Letters about Akan Culture and Society);
Covert Gynocracy (Decline of Status among Akan Women);
Cross Cousin Marriage;
Dispersed Community Abstract; (Summary of PhD Dissertation)
Forty Days (The Akan Traditional Calendar);
Three Souls (Cosmology of the World and the Body; Colours Black, Red, White);
Titles (List of Publications by Phil Bartle);
Web Links (Akan and Kwawu on the Internet);
Odds 'n Bits; (An Eclectic Collection of little observations);
Why Obo? (Personal biography and the choice of a Community for an Ethnography).

Traditional Religion:

The Spirit in Us; Introduction (Under the Christian Surface);

Gods I; Tutelary Deities; (Gods, Rivers, Rocks, the White Elements);
Gods II; Nansing; (A Powerful Deity on the North Side of kwawu);
Gods III; Health and Fertility; (The Main purposes of the Gods);
Gods IV; Ohantrase; (Celebrations at the Town Square Under the Ohantra Tree);
Ancestors I; Death and Beyond; (Power and Reconciliation; Elder sand the Ghosts);
Ancestors II; Afahye; (Celebrations);

Gyenyame; (Unless God; an Akan Adinkra Symbol)
Geographic Taboos. (Where You Are Can Affect Your Food Proscriptions).

History:

Prehistory;
The Afram (North of the Escarpment);
Round to Square (conversion from Guan to Akan);
Trains; (A Revolutionary Effect on Gold Coast History);
Swiss Missionaries; (Basel Pietists);
Kwasi Bruni. (Corn and Europeans).

Geography:

Illustrated Essays:

Introduction; Gender; (Historical Divisions of Labour);

Women I; Food;
Women II; Farming;
Women III: Marketing;
Women IV: Cooking; Second Part;
Women V; Clay;
Men I; Wood;
Men II; Weaving;

Men and Women; Oil Palm; (So Many Ways to Use it).

Farming, Women
Tapping, Men
Selling, Women
Other.

Other Topics:

People

Modern Skills;

Cocoa;
Military;

Transport;

Trains;
Roads;
The Afram;

Housing.

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Akan Religion; Introduction
The Spirit in Us; Overview.
Gods I; Tutelary Spirits;
Gods II; Nansing;
Gods III; Health and Fertility;

Gods IV; Ohantrase; Ancestors I; Death and Beyond;
Ancestors II; Afahye;
Three Souls;

Black Linguist Staff;
Geographic Taboos;
Forty Days;
Swiss Missionaries;
Gyenyame.

Local Gods are Rivers, Mountains and Caves

Festival at Ohantrase, Outside the Chief's Palace

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

Akan Social Organization, Intro
Akan Case Study, Sociology;
Black Apoma;
Correspondence;
Covert Gynocracy;

Cross Cousin Marriage;
Dispersed Community;
Forty Days;
Kwasi Bruni;

Odds 'n Bits;
Three Souls;
Titles;
Web Links;
Why Obo?

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

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?

2009.05.28.