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Looking for traces of hybridity : two Basel Mission reports and a Queen Mother : philosophical remarks on the interpretation of a political deed
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In this paper, a rereading of two texts that had been written at the very beginning of the twentieth century in the western part of the former Gold Coast colony, today's Ghana Guided by the concept of hybridity, is presented.Abstract:
Summary This article undertakes the rereading of two texts that had been written at the very beginning of the twentieth century in the western part of the former Gold‐Coast colony, today's Ghana Guided by the concept of “hybridity”, this reading tries to show that a close look at the construction of identity ‐ in this case the identity of a missionary and a native pastor ‐ can open up ways for new textual interpretations Thus, the two authors who are located in the power struggle between the local politics, the colonial government and the Basel Mission seem to contest the official interpretation of a political deed in their reports and thereby negotiate its meaningread more
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Crisis Foster Care in an Age of HIV and AIDS: Experiences of the Queen Mothers of Manya Klo, Ghana
TL;DR: Most of the existing research about orphan care has focused exclusively on the woman-child dyad, thereby obscuring other forms of care and the “grandmother-led household” has become a self-fulfilling truism that has blinded researchers to other relationships of care.
'Shameless maidens': women's agency and the mission project in Akuapem
TL;DR: Theophilus Opoku's concerns with marriage and adultery, motherhood and fornication give valuable insights into the ways in which women exercised agency in Akuapem as mentioned in this paper.
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The King, His Soul and the Pastor: Three Views of a Conflict in Akropong 1906-7
Michelle V. Gilbert,Paul Jenkins +1 more
TL;DR: In Akwapim, a small kingdom in southern Ghana (then the Gold Coast), a bitter conflict occurred between the king, Nana Kwasi Akuffo, and a wealthy trader who had been appointed as the king's "soul" (okra) but who later decided to resign his position and rejoin the Christian community.
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Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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The Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as mentioned in this paper, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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One Hundred and Fifty Years of Christianity in a Ghanaian Town
TL;DR: The development of a Christian congregation that is neither syncretist nor separatist and with its place as one element of a total local religious system which includes other faiths is discussed in this paper.