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Continuity and change in a West African society : globalization's impact on the Sisala of Ghana / Eugene L. Mendonsa.
Van Pelt Library DT510.43.S57 M45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendonsa, Eugene L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sisala (African people)--Economic conditions.
- Sisala (African people).
- Sisala (African people)--Social conditions.
- Sustainable development--Ghana.
- Sustainable development.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Ghana.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 425 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Old and New in Sisalaland 7
- Some Theory about the Distillation of the Political Economy 11
- My View of Culture 17
- Chapter I. Sisala History: War, Trade and Chiefs 21
- Governance: In the Beginning 21
- The Coming of the Slave Wars and Trade 23
- The Sisala in History: Local and Global Influences 27
- Sipaalaaraa and the Rise of Wartime Leadership 29
- Nucleation and the Defense of Villages 39
- Summary: The Influence of Opportunities 44
- The Role of "Chief" Dolbizan in the Zabarima Slave Wars 46
- The Relation of Dolbizan to the Zabarima Slavers 49
- The Nature of Yalingbong, the War Rock 51
- The Siege at Yalingbong 53
- Dolbizan and the Zabarima: Summary and Conclusions 55
- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The French 57
- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The British 57
- Governance Today 63
- Chapter II. The Changing Family 69
- The Past: Material Conditions and Structure 69
- The 1978 Household Structure 76
- The Petrofarming Revolution and Market Demand, 1998 80
- The 1998 Household Structure 85
- Chapter III. Prostitution, Sex and Marriage 105
- Chapter IV. Changing Marriage Patterns 129
- The Political Economy of Marriage 129
- Marriage Defined 131
- Bridewealth Payments 133
- The Prestations and Transactions of Marriage 137
- Returnability of the Bridewealth 140
- Legitimacy and Patrimony 141
- A Case of a Bridewealth Payment in Default 144
- Chapter V. Divination as Negotiation 155
- The Divinatory Process 155
- The Five Stages in Divination 157
- 1. Contact 157
- 2. Opening of the Bag 158
- 3. Invocation of the Ancestors 158
- 4. Removal of the Code Objects 159
- 5. Interrogation 160
- Postdivinatory Sacrifice 161
- A New Theoretical Frame to Look at Divination 164
- Divination as Negotiation 166
- The Case of Marifa's Divination 173
- Discussion of the Data 178
- Chapter VI. Political Strategies by Sisala Elders 185
- Action Behind the Aegis of Office: Introductory Theory 185
- The Strategies in Divination 198
- Chapter VII. Women's Work in the Past 219
- The Position of Women in the Gerontocracy 219
- Women's Roles in the Past Economy 220
- Why Didn't Sisala Women Farm in the Past? 224
- The Awareness of Women about Their Plight 226
- Behavioral Latitude for Women 229
- A Bitter Taste of Freedom Lost 230
- Chapter VIII. The Resurgence of Traction-Plowing: Implications for Sustainable Development 237
- The Agrarian System in 1971 238
- The Agrarian System in 1998 240
- Population Pressure and Land 243
- Sustainability of the Introduced Farming Methods 245
- The Sustainability of Bullock Traction Technology 250
- Implications for Development Planners 253
- Chapter IX. Changing Sisala Women 263
- Gendered Farm Statistics and Comparisons 264
- Women's Entry into Farming 272
- Conclusions and Development Recommendations 292
- Preliminary Summary Remarks 295
- A Reiteration of My View of Culture 298
- The Wealth-in-People System 300
- Ritual Control of People and Wealth 304
- The Survival of the Lineage 307
- Why Continuity and Why Change? Some Theory 315
- The Exogenous/Endogenous Change Debate 331
- The Legacy of Development Theory: The Evolutionary Model 333
- The Legacy of Development Theory: The Ecological Model 337
- Globalization's Impact in Africa and Sisalaland 338
- Globalization's Impact: Two Scenarios of the Future 342
- Scenario I. The Rosy Future 343
- Scenario II. The Dreary Future 344
- Sustainability: The Key to Any Future 346
- Chapter XI. A Postmodernist Postscript: Initial Naivete and Present-Day Plans 351
- First Fieldwork 351
- Personal Change and the Emergence of Salia Bujan 353
- Background and Plans of Nenkentie and Salia 357.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-392) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0890896372
- OCLC:
- 49912641
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