The Akan highlife song: a medium of cultural reflection or deflection
1984; Indiana University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1527-2044
Autores Tópico(s)African studies and sociopolitical issues
ResumoThis paper is a comment on Sjaak van der Geest's article, Image of Death in Akan Highlife Songs of Ghana (Research in African Literatures, 11 [Summer 1980]), in which some observations were made, by the author, about Akan belief systems and at? titudes to death on the basis of his examination of Akan highlife song texts. The significance of van der Geest's approach and observations lies in the attention he draws to the antithetical re?
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