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Journal articles on the topic "Ghanaian anthropology"

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Killiam, G. D., and Richard K. Priebe. "Ghanaian Literatures." African Studies Review 33, no. 1 (1990): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524631.

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van Dijk, Rijk. "Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the Stranger's Beauty in Botswana." Africa 73, no. 4 (2003): 560–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2003.73.4.560.

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AbstractThis contribution considers the current position of the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, at a time of rising xenophobic sentiments and increasing ethnic tensions among the general public. The article examines anthropological understandings of such sentiments by placing them in the context of the study of nationalisms in processes of state formation in Africa and the way in which these ideologies reflect the position and recognition of minorities. In Botswana, identity politics indulge in a liberalist democratic rhetoric in which an undifferentiated citizenship is promoted by the state, concealing on the one hand inequalities between the various groups in the country, but on the other hand defending the exclusive interests of all ‘Batswana’ against foreign influence through the enactment of what has become known as a ‘localisation policy'. Like many other nationalities, Ghanaian expatriate labour has increasingly become the object of localisation policies. However in their case xenophobic sentiments have taken on unexpected dimensions. By focusing on the general public's fascination with Ghanaian fashion and styles of beautification, the numerous hair salons and clothing boutiques Ghanaians operate, in addition to the newly emerging Ghanaian-led Pentecostal churches in the city, the ambiguous but ubiquitous play of repulsion and attraction can be demonstrated in the way in which localisation is perceived and experienced by the migrant as well as by the dominant groups in society. The article concludes by placing entrepreneurialism at the nexus of where this play of attraction and repulsion creates a common ground of understanding between Ghanaians and their host society, despite the government's hardening localisation policies.
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CASEY, JOANNA. ":Ghanaian Video Tales." American Anthropologist 109, no. 3 (2007): 543–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2007.109.3.543.

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Breckenridge, Keith. "The World's First Biometric Money: Ghana's E-Zwich and the Contemporary Influence of South African Biometrics." Africa 80, no. 4 (2010): 642–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2010.0406.

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ABSTRACTIn January 2008 the Ghanaian Central Bank announced that it had introduced a new centralized mechanism for the settlement of transactions between the Ghanaian banks. This interbank switch, as it was called, was purchased from, and managed by, the South African company Net 1 UEPS, and it had a unique central organizing principle. The switch was indexed biometrically, using a key derived from the ten fingerprints of account holders. This new interbank switch and a smartcard encoded in the same way has equipped Ghana with the world's first biometric money supply. This article is an effort to explain the development and significance of this biometric money, which Ghanaians call the e-Zwich. It traces the way in which biometric registration in Ghana (as in other African countries) has leaked from the mundane, difficult, and mostly unrewarding, task of civil registration into the more properly remunerated domain of monetary transactions. Viewed in the light of the rich historical anthropology of money in West Africa, what is at stake in Ghana may be much more significant than any of the current participants fully realize. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that the e-Zwich system might actually succeed.
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Mikell, Gwendolyn. "Ghanaian Females, Rural Economy and National Stability." African Studies Review 29, no. 3 (1986): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524084.

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Oduro-Frimpong, Joseph. "SakawaRituals and Cyberfraud in Ghanaian Popular Video Movies." African Studies Review 57, no. 2 (2014): 131–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.51.

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Abstract:Sakawaindexes a cyberfraud practice in Ghana allegedly linked with occult rituals. This article examines the phenomenon as an analytically relevant example of a material understanding of religion. It then offers a critical reading of a popularsakawavideo series and contrasts its thematic perspectives with the reactions of some Ghanaian political leaders to the possible motivations for the practice. This critical approach is conceived as a response to the persistent myopic view of such popular genres as irrelevant to key debates around problematic Ghanaian issues and also to calls in global media studies to de-Westernize the field.
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Saaka, Yakubu. "Recurrent Themes in Ghanaian Politics." Journal of Black Studies 24, no. 3 (1994): 263–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002193479402400303.

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Dei, George S. "Deforestation in a Ghanaian Rural Community." Anthropologica 32, no. 1 (1990): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25605556.

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Lentz, Carola. ""This is Ghanaian territory!": Land conflicts on a West African border." American Ethnologist 30, no. 2 (2003): 273–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2003.30.2.273.

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Hutchful, Eboe, Deborah Pellow, Naomi Chazan, and Donald I. Ray. "Ghana and the Ghanaian Revolution." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 21, no. 3 (1987): 420. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485656.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ghanaian anthropology"

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Nyonator, John Paul. "Informal Knowledge and Biomedicine: Ghanaian Assemblages." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28666.

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The field study took place in Dzodze, Ghana, over a period of 4 months in 2009. The data was collected through semi directed interviews and ethnography. The aim of this study was to investigate how localized practices provide a lens to gain larger insights into national and transnational politics of healing and knowledge. Precisely, how are current relationships between informal healers and biomedical practitioners performed in the everyday life of Dzodze, Ghana? The results of the study indicate no direct or institutionalized collaboration between biomedical practitioners and healers, however there is some form of relationships between informal birth attendants and public midwives. It is also apparent that the power relations linked with formal practices decrease possibilities for collaboration with informal medicine and also have a negative influence on any possible medium of innovation. The study also shows that people continue to use informal medicine because it works for them yet government reaction towards integration of informal medicine into national health system remains slow. Keywords: informal medicine, biomedicine, relationships
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Greco, Mitchell J. "THE EMIC AND ETIC TEACHING PERSPECTIVES OF TRADITIONAL GHANAIAN DANCE-DRUMMING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GHANAIAN AND AMERICAN MUSIC COGNITION AND THE TRANSMISSION PROCESS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398073851.

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Oduro-Frimpong, Joseph. "Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/579.

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How do popular media genres reinforce or provide alternative perspectives to circulating official political discourses, as well as articulate issues of social concern? In what ways do such media offer insights into aspects of cultural practices that inform and represent matters of key significance in people's quotidian lives? This dissertation investigates these two general questions within four distinct Ghanaian popular visual media genres: popular video-films, political cartoons, death announcement posters, and vehicle inscriptions (`mottonyms'). Regarding the Ghanaian popular video-films, I examine how the films (re)present the issue of cyberfraud (`sakawa') in Ghana. I contrast the films' (re)presentation of this phenomenon vis-a-vis that of certain official pronouncements on the issue, and argue that a critical approach to the `sakawa film series' reveals a robust counter discourse to official denunciations. My investigation of political cartoons, examines some of the works of the artist Akosua in the Ghanaian newspaper, Daily Guide. Here I focus on how Akosua's works, utilizing popular cultural allusions, function as an alternative media discourse in contemporary Ghanaian sociopolitical debates. As regards the death-announcement posters, I investigate how, situated as they are within certain well-known Ghanaian cultural values and practices, including funerary caskets, these posters remediate these cultural mores in the context of rapid social change. Lastly, regarding the mottonyms, I explore, through interviews with vehicle owners, the interactions between specific life experiences that spurred them to coin these inscriptions and the cultural fabric within which they have done so. Conceptually, this dissertation draws not only from cultural anthropology and its subfields of visual culture, and religion, media and culture, but also significantly from global/international media studies and from emergent works on African cultural and media studies. The harnessing of interdisciplinary conceptual frameworks, such as phenomenological and social constructionist approaches, to interrogate Ghanaian popular visual media in this dissertation advances our current thinking in the above-mentioned fields in several ways. For example, the social constructionist (Lee-Hurwitz 1995; Morgan 2005) and phenomenological approaches (Langsdorf, 1994; Lanigan 1998) that guide the investigation of vehicle inscriptions and death-announcement posters reveal purposeful intentionality in human communication. Furthermore, this dissertation, with its focus on popular video-films, press cartoons, death-announcement posters and vehicle inscriptions concretely elucidates recent expansive theorizations of `media'. Here `media' is understood as practices of mediation (de Vries 2001; Meyer 2003; Zito 2008), and broadly conceived to transcend narrowly defined traditional mass media formats (Downing 1996). In the latter case, I advocate for global/international media scholars to begin to pay equal `field service' to popular media artifacts within the current ambit of the `practice paradigm' in global/international media studies (Postill 2010:4; Couldry 2004).
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Amemate, Amelia AmeDela. "Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu157797167417396.

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Riahi, Idris S. [Verfasser], and Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Berner. "The Modernity of Witchcraft in the Ghanaian Online Setting / Idris S. Riahi ; Betreuer: Ulrich Berner." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1143008588/34.

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Arhin-Sam, Kwaku [Verfasser]. "Return Migration, Reintegration and Sense of Belonging : The Case of Skilled Ghanaian Returnees / Kwaku Arhin-Sam." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192103815/34.

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Lobnibe, Isidore. "Going to jong : a burden of history and current option among northern Ghanaian farm migrants /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290303.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4755. Adviser: Mahir Saul. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-185) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Anyidoho, Paul Kwabla. "Ideologies of language and print media in Ghana." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6429.

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Books on the topic "Ghanaian anthropology"

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Asamoa, Ansa. The syndrome of primary contradiction and development: The Ghanaian experience. Published for University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast by Ghana Universities Press, 1996.

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Pastoral counselling in inter-cultural perspective: A study of some African (Ghanaian) and Anglo-American views on human existence and counselling. P. Lang, 1987.

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Le pays Bissa avant le barrage de Bagré: Anthropologie de l'espace rural. Sépia, 1996.

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Gyekye, Kwame. Beyond Cultures: Perceiving a Common Humanity : Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, III (The J.B. Danquah Memorial Lectures, Ser. 32). Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003.

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M, Warren D. Ghanaian Oral Histories: The Chiefs and Towns of Techiman Traditional State (Papers in Anthropology, No 7). Hines Proguide Publishing, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ghanaian anthropology"

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Krause, Kristine. "Orientations." In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism. NYU Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814772591.003.0004.

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This chapter concerns how Pentecostal believers evaluate, sustain, and create moral geographies of their inner selves, their surroundings, and the wider world in their charismatic practices. It explores these practices based on fieldwork conducted with migrants from Ghana in London, but also on research in transnational Pentecostal networks of Ghanaian-founded churches based in Berlin and Hamburg. While the focus is on how moral subject positions are created in this “simultaneously universal and deeply personal” movement, the chapter also emphasizes that Pentecostal practices are inevitably relational. Importantly, this chapter proposes that the question of rupture that dominated the anthropological literature for quite some time needs to be reformulated in light of the diversification of the Pentecostal scene; for young Ghanaian migrants born into born-again families, the challenge is how to preserve these moral boundaries.
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"13 - The Safe And Suffering Body In Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards An Anthropology Of Vulnerable Agency." In Strength beyond Structure. BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004156968.i-345.123.

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Hodžić, Saida. "Introduction." In The Twilight of Cutting. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291980.003.0001.

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Introduction: Governmentality Against Itself lays out the book’s overarching arguments and analytical contributions to anthropology and feminist theory. Rather than debating how “we” as Western subjects should think about cutting, this book attends to the political concerns and ethical dilemmas of Ghanaian and other African women and men who are most engaged in and affected by the efforts to end and regulate cutting. It addresses two questions: Are efforts to end female genital cutting a problem, and if so, what kind of a problem are they and for whom? For whom is the ending of cutting a problem and why? I redefine answers to these two questions from the perspectives of Ghanaian lifeworlds rather than liberal debates about FGM. In Ghana, cutting has been ending in many districts, and dramatically so in areas where sustained, decades-long campaigns have taken place. The waning of cutting has been accompanied by critical responses to the colonial order of things and its afterlives in the liberal governance of everyday life. These critiques are voiced not in public protests or debates but in a different key: in indirect speech and in practices of living. They gather their force from sensibilities (that is entanglements of thought, affect, and habitus) formed at the interstices of social and governmental logics, and in consonance with tacit principles on which society is built, such as the ethics of relationality and mutual responsibility.
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