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Item Details
| Title:
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SPEAKING FOR THE CHIEF
OKYEAME AND THE POLITICS OF AKAN ROYAL ORATORY |
| By: |
Kwesi Yankah |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253209463 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253209467 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1995 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Provides an ethnography of royal rhetoric and the language and politics of representation among the Akan of Ghana. This book shows the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems. It shows the art of the okyeame to be not simply a genre of speaking, but a set of cultural practices. |
| Synopsis: |
...an unprecedented opportunity to understand West African oratory from the point of view of a native Akan speaker who is also a gifted linguist and ethnographer...[Yankah] shows with elegance the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems. - "Alessandro Duranti". Among the Akan of Ghana and in other areas of West Africa, royal speech is not articulated with a single voice but is rather a composite of the chief's words and their artistic relay by his orator and principal diplomat, the okyeame. In the royal entourage the okyeame is the most conspicuous personage, functioning as the chief's mouth and ear: the individual through whom the chief speaks and through whom others' words may reach the chief. This little-studied phenomenon receives comprehensive exploration in Kwesi Yankah's engaging "Speaking for the Chief", a theoretically informed work rich with firsthand observations. Yankah shows the art of the okyeame to be not simply a genre of speaking but a set of cultural practices that mediate and reconstitute local notions of power, hegemony, and public discourse. |
| Illustrations: |
23 b&w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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