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People and animals: constru(ct)ing the Asante experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

T. C. McCaskie
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Les Asante (Ashanti) sont un peuple d'habitants de la forêt d'Afrique de l'Ouest, vivant maintenant au sein de la République de Ghana. Cet article étudie comment les Asante perçoivent les animaux de la forêt dans un large contexte culturel et historique. Ces animaux étaient omnipresents dans la vie et les pensées des Asante, et cet article offre une analyse des explications—phénoménologiques et ontologiques—qui leur ont été attribuées. Il est aussi examiné comment les interprétations sur le cas des animaux étaient liées à la compréhension des Asante de l'individualité et de la personne, et aux explications du mythe et de l'histoire.

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Africa , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 221 - 247
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Copyright © International African Institute 1992

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