By Stephan F. Miescher
By means of that includes the existence histories of 8 senior males, Making males in Ghana explores the altering that means of changing into a guy in sleek Africa. Stephan F. Miescher concentrates at the beliefs and expectancies that shaped round males who have been widespread of their groups whilst Ghana turned an autonomous kingdom. Miescher indicates how they negotiated advanced social and monetary variations and the way they handled their mounting responsibilities and tasks as leaders of their kinship teams, church buildings, and colleges. not just have been notions approximately males and masculinity formed via group criteria, yet they have been strongly encouraged by means of imported criteria that got here from missionaries and different colonial officers. As he recounts the lifestyles histories of those males, Miescher finds that the passage to manhood -- and a place of strength, seniority, authority, and management -- used to be now not regularly welcome or effortless. As a big foil for stories on girls and femininity, this groundbreaking booklet not just explores masculinity and beliefs of male habit, yet bargains a clean viewpoint on African males in a century of swap.
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Abetifi is the great center to which the bulk of the smoked flesh is brought. . 16 At the beginning of the twentieth century Abetifi was a well-known market for ivory, attracting European traders. ” Wahyee also recalled “Germans” purchasing ivory (see Fig. 17 In a discussion with his nephew, Yaw Apea, Wahyee reflected on the disappearance of the hunting profession. ” Although both Wahyee and Apea mentioned the extinction of big game, in their perception men’s changing preferences and government interference were more important.
It was a battle being joined in countless areas on other continents affected by colonialism as well, and it is hoped that the deep investigation provided here will illuminate and define its complexities. Life Histories and Subjectivity In order to explore understandings of masculinities and sense of self among eight Kwawu men, I have focused on the life cycle. While there is a wealth of anthropological studies addressing how Africans think about personhood and the life cycle, this approach also allows for the examination of change in masculinity.
View from the Kwawu ridge toward Nkawkaw, 1993. Photo, R. Lane Clark. 3 MAKING MEN IN GHANA Ghana in 2004. Map by Greg Hajic, Map & Imagery Laboratory, UCSB. 4 “To Be a Man Is Hard” matrilineal descent and speak Akan-Twi. Kwawu also encompasses lands in the forest south of the ridge and portions of the northern savannah in the Afram Plains. The ridge towns enjoy a cool climate. At the highest elevation of two thousand feet lies Abetifi, with about eight thousand inhabitants, and the hometown of four men in the cohort: E.