TY - BOOK AU - Schildkrout, Enid ED - The American Museum of Natural History TI - The golden stool: studies of the Asante center and periphery: Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History SN - 00659452 AV - GN 1 A44 1987 v. 65 pt. 1 PY - 1987/// CY - New York PB - American Museum of Natural History KW - Anthropology KW - Periodicals N1 - Includes bibliographical references index; Introduction ; Schildkrout, Enid; Chapter 1. Prelude to Akan Civilization ; Posnansky, Merrick; Chapter 2. Archaeology in Gonja and Asante connections ; Shinnie, Peter L.; Chapter 3. The impact of Asante on the trade patterns of Northern Ghana and Ivory Coast; Kense, François J.; Chapter 4. A Late archaeological horizon in Ghana: Proto-Akan or Pre-Akan?; Bellis, James O. ; Chapter 5. Savanna contributions to the Asante political Economy; Arhin, Kwame ; Chapter 6. Pontonporon and Koko: Asante-Gonja relations to 1874 ; Haight, Bruce M.; Chapter 7. An Asante Kuduo among the Frafra of Northern Ghana ; Garrard, Timothy F.; Chapter 8. Power or prestige? Muslims in 19th century Kumas ; Owusu-Ansah, David; Chapter 9. Painted incantations: the closeness of Allah and kings in 19th-century Asante ; Bravmann, René A. and Silverman, Raymond A.; Chapter 10. What manner of persons were these? some reflections on Asante officialdom ; Wilks, Ivor; Chapter 11. Kwasi Boakye and Kwame Poku: Dutch-educated Asante "princess"; Yarak, Larry W. ; Chapter 12. A nation in exile: the Asante on the Seychelles islands, 1900-24 ; Boahen, A. Adu; Chapter 13. Kingship in contemporary Asante society; Owusu, Maxwell ; Chapter 14. The Asante national liberation movement of the 1950s in retrospect; Andoh, A. S. Y. ; Chapter 15. Gifts and attitudes; Mcleod, Malcolm D. ; Chapter 16. Asante dance art and the court ; Opoku, Albert Mawere; Chapter 17. Asante court music ; Nketia, J. H. Kwabena; Chapter 18. precolonial gold mining in Wassa: innovation, specialization, linkages to the economy and to the state ; Dumett, Raymond E.; Chapter 19. Asante wars of the 19th century and direct access to the coast ; Reynolds, Edward; Chapter 20. Asante war aims in the 1869 invasion of Ewe ; Maier, Donna J. E.; Chapter 21. Asante imperialism and Gyaman resistance: forms, motivations, trends ; Terray, Emmanuel; Chapter 22. Trade and politics on the Asante periphery: Gyaman, 1818-1900; Handloff, Robert ; Chapter 23. Asante and the Akan periphery: the Baule on the western Akan frontier ; Weiskel, Timothy C.; Chapter 24. Historical dimensions of Tano worship among the Asante and Bono ; Silverman, Raymond A.; Chapter 25. The discovery of Pre-Anyi funerary statuettes in southeastern Ivory Coast; Polet, Jean ; Chapter 26. The Asante origins of the lagoon peoples as an art historical problem ; Visonà, Monica Blackmun; References cited ; Index ER -