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The Ewe people : a study of the Ewe people in German Togo / by Jacob Spieth translated by Marcellinus Edroh, Emmanuel Tsaku, Raphael Avornyo & Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu ; edited by Komla Amoaku.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spieth, Jakob, 1856-1914.
- Standardized Title:
- Ewe-Stämme. English
- Language:
- English
- Ewe
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Ewe (African people)--History.
- Ewe (African people).
- Ethnology--Togo.
- Ethnology.
- History.
- Togo.
- Togo--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 950 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Accra : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English and Ewe.
- Summary:
- This is an English translation of the 1906 study Die Ewe-Stamme: Material zur Kunde des Ewe-Volkes in Deutsch-Togo, which was produced by German missionary Jakob Spieth as a comprehensive ethnography of the Ewe people of German Togoland, which geographically encompassed contemporary Togo and portions of present-day Ghana, after 20 years of missionary work in the country. Originally published as a bilingual text in the German and Ewe languages, Spieth's work is notable for its ambitious scope, which addressed the history, geography, socio-political organization, religion, cultural life, language, and oral traditions of the Ewe people, as well as (according to a pair of contemporary Ghanaian academics introducing the text) for its unusual respect for the essential humanity of the Ewe people, which stands in stark contrast to Spieth's contemporaries, who were prone to characterize the Ewe as possessing "the ordinary characteristics of the uncivilized negro." Given the importance of the Ewe language to Spieth's treatment, the bilingual nature of the text has been retained, with English replacing the German and the Ewe text included alongside. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- "With 2 maps and 172 photographs."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789988647902
- 9988647905
- OCLC:
- 752079985
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