PUBLICATIONS ON GHANA:

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Adomako Ampofo, A.,"Costs and Rewards - Exchange In Relationships, Experiences Of Some Ghanaian Women," In Eva Evers Rosanders (Ed.), Transforming Female Indentities, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, pp. 177-196.

________, "Nice Guys, Condoms, Incisions and Other Forms of STD Protection; AIDS Preventive Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa." Proceedings of CODESRIA/Orstom International Symposium, on Social Science and AIDS in Africa: Review and Prospects, I (1996), pp. 331-357.

________, "Women and AIDS in Ghana: I Control My Body (or do I)?, Ghanaian Sex Workers And Susceptibility To STDs, Especially AIDS," In P. Makwina-Adebusoye and A. Jensen (Eds.), Women's Position and Demographic Changein Sub-Saharan Africa, Liege: Ordina Editions, 1995, pp. 233-251.

________, "Controlling and Punishing Women: Ghanaian Women's Experiences of Violence," VENA, 5, 2 (1992), pp. 26-30.

________, and T. Manuh, "The Place and role of Women in Senior level Administration and management in Ghana," in The Role and Status of Women in African Administration, CAFRAD (African tranining and research Center in Administration for development), Studies and Documents Series, 7 (1994), pp. 71-116.

Akyeampong, Emmanuel, "Sexuality and Prostitution among the Akan of Ghana, c.1650-1950," Past and Present, 156 (November 1997), pp.170-199.

________, "Akan Religion and History," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 23-25.

Allman, Jean, "Adultery and the State in Asante: Reflections on Gebder, Class and Power from 1800-1950," in J. O. Hunwick and Nancy Lawler (eds.), The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Papers on History and Society, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996, pp. 27-66.

______, "Fathering, Mothering and Making Sense of Ntamoba: Reflecxtions on the economy of Child-Rearing in Colonial Asante," Africa, 67, 2 (1997), pp. 296-321.

________, "Ghana: History," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 235-238.

Arhin Brempong, Nana, "Osei Tutu," in Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 3, New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp367-368.

________, "Prempeh, Agyeman," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 485-486.

Arnaut, Karel , E. Dell, eds., Bedu is my Lover: Five Stories about Bondoukou and Masquerading, Brighton: The Green Center for Non-Western Art, 1996.

Austin, Gareth, "'No Elders were Present': Commoners and Private Ownership in Asante, 1807-1896," Journal of African History, 37, 1 (1966), pp. 1-30.

________, "Mode of Production or Mode of Cultivation: Explaining the Failure of European Cocoa Planters in Competition with African Farmers in Colonial Ghana," in W. G. Clarence-Smith (ed.), Cocoa Pioneer Fronts: The Role of Smallholders, Planters and Merchants, London: Macmillan, 1966, pp. 154-175.

________, "National Poverty and the 'Vampire State' in Ghana: a review article," Journal of International Development, 8, 4 (1966), pp. 553-573.

________, "Introduction to the Second edition": the Classics in African Anthropology edition of Polly Hill's Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana, International African Institute and James Curry, 1997, pp. ix-xxviii.

Berry, Sarah, "Unsettled Accounts: Stool Debts, Chieftaincy Disputes and the Question of Asante Constitutionalism." Journal of African History , 39, 1 (1998), pp. 1-24.

________, "Tomatoes, Land, and Hearsay: Property and History in Asante in the Time of Structural Adjustment," World Development. 25, 8 (1997) pp. 1225-1242.

Bodomo, A. B., "Serial Verb Constructions As Complex predicates: Evidence from Dagaare and Akan," in Maddieson and Hinnebusch (eds.), Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa: Trends in African Linguistics, vol. 2, Africa World Press, in press.

________, The Structure of Dagaare, Stanford Monographs in African Languages, CSLI publications, Stanford, USA, 1997. <http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/bodomo.html>

________, Paths and Pathfinders: Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of Complex Verbal Predicates in Dagaare and Other Languages, Doctoral Dissertation, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1997 . <http://linguistlist.org/diss-html/1986.html>

________, Linguistics, Education, and Politics: An Interplay on Ghanaian Languages, in R. Herbert (ed.), African Linguistics at the Crossroads: Papers from Kwaluseni, Koln: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, 1997, pp. 469-484.

________, "On Language and development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana, Nordic Journal of African Studies, 5, 2 (1996), pp. 31-53.

________, "Language, Culture, and History in Northern Ghana: An Introduction to the Mabia Linguistic Group," Nordic Journal of African Studies, 3, 2 (1964), no page numbers provided.

________, "Linguistic Relativity in the Light of Mabia temporal Systems: Evidence from Dagaare and Dagbane," Cahiers Voltaiques/Gur Papers ( Bayreuth, Germany), 1 (1996), pp. 95-103.

Brydon, Lynne, "Women Chiefs and Power in the Volta Region of Ghana," journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, # 37-38 (1996), pp. 227-247.

________, "Education in Anglophone West Africa," Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, Vol. 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 1-4.

________, and Karen Legge, Adjusting Society: The World Bank, The IMF and Ghana, I.B. Tauris, British Academic Press, 1996.

________, "Gender and Adjustment: Pictures from Ghana," in Gloria Thomas Emeagwili (ed.), Women Pay the price: Economic Reform and gender in Africa and the Caribbean, Afrca World press, USA, 1995, pp. 63-86.

Chouin, Gerard , Ecrits d’entre-deux mondes. Un index analytique des sources manuscrites de l’histoire des †tats de la Côte de l’Or (Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana) dans les fonds de la Biblioth_que Nationale et des Archives Nationales de france (1634-1710), African Studies Program, University of wisconsin-Madison & IFRA-Ibadan, 1996, p. 62.,

________, Eguafo, royaume africain au ‘coeur françois’, 1637-1687. Mutations †conomiques, enjeux sociaux et politique europ†enne d’un †tat de la Côte de l’Or (Ghana) au XVIIeme si_cle, Paris, Afera, forthcoming (1998).

________, " A l’ouest d’Elmina. Un extrait des relations d’un voyage en Guin†e sur le vaisseau du roi ‘le Tourbillon’ (1670-1671)," Le Griot, iv, 2 (1996), pp. 51-64.

Cole, Catherine M., "Reading Balckface in west Africa: Wonders taken for Signs," Critical Inquiry, 23 (1996), pp. 183-215.

________, "'This is Actually a Good Interpretation of Modern Civilization': Popular Theatre and the Social Imaginary in Ghana, 1946-66," Africa, 67, 3 (1997), pp. 363-388.

DeCorse, Christopher, "Documentsm orak Histories, and the Material Record: Historical Archaeology in West Africa," World Archaeological Bulletin, 7 (1996), pp. 40-50.

________, "West African Forest Kingdoms," in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 747-748.

________, "The Archaeology of Western Africa." in The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, volume 1, New York: Charles Scribner's, 1997, pp. 84-90.

________, "Culture Contact and Change in West Africa," in James Cusick (ed.), Studies in Culture Contact, Carbondale: South Illinois University, 1998, pp. 358-377.

________, "The Europeans in West Africa: Culture Contact, Continuity and Change," in Graham Connah (ed.), Transformation in Africa, London: Cassells, 1998, pp. 219-244.

________, "Historical Archaelogy in Western Africa," in The Archaelogy of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, 1998, pp. 545-549.

DeCorse, C. R., and R. Scupin, Anthropology: A Global Perspective (3rd edition), Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Destombes, Jerôme, "Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957 (A Historical Prespective on Nutritional Economics)," London School of Economics and Political Science, Working Paper in Economic History, forthcoming in 1988.

Duchesne, Veronique, "Le cercle de kaolin. Boson et initi†s en terre anyi, Côte d’Ivoire," Institut d’ethnologies, Paris, 1996.

________, "Un territoire villageois _ l’epreuve de la modernite (Kngandissou, Côte d’Ivoire)," in Les actes du colloque international d’etudes akan Identite et pouvoir en Afrique, _ paraZtre 1997.

________, "Gemellite et souverainete chez les Anyi de Côte d’Ivoire, L’Uomo, _ paraZtre 1997.

Galli, Silvano, Le Tabouret d’or, recueil de contes sur Nyamian Dieu du ciel et de la terre, Abidjan, 1995.

________, I1 Neonato dalla Barba bianca, recconti aficani (Nouvelle †dition totalement refaite, avec pr†face de Bernard Dadi†), EMI, Bologna, 1993.

________, Un Bimbo con tre mamme, Favole della Costa d’Avorio, EMI, Bologna, 1993.

Gilbert, Michelle, "Akuapem Odwira Festival," C. Roy (ed.) , CD-ROM Art and Life in Africa Project, University of Iowa, 1997.

________, "'Linguist Staff' and 'Finial'," in Africa: The Art of a Continent: 100 Works of Power and Beauty. New York: Guggenheim Museum pp. 144-145.

________, "Queens and Queen Mothers," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, vol. 3 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1997), pp. 545-548.

________, "'No Condition is Permanent': Ethnic Construction and rthe Use of History in Akuapem," Africa, (in press).

Gocking, Roger S, "Colonial Rule and the 'Legal Factor' in Ghana and Lesotho," Africa, 67, 1 (1996), pp. 61-85.

________, review of "Cocoa, Disease and Politics in Ghana." By FrancisDanquah. Journal of African History, 38, 2 (1997), pp. 332-333.

Greene, Sandra, E., "Developing the Arts for development in Ghana," Africa Notes, (February, 1998), Bulletin of the Institute ofr African development, Cornell University, Ithaca.

________, "A Perspective from African Women's History: Comment on 'Confronting Continuity'," Journal of Women's History, 9, 3 (1997).

________, "Sacred Terrin: Religion, Politcs and Place in the History of Anloga (Ghana)," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 30, 1 (1997).

________, "The Individual as Stranger in 19th Century Anlo: The Politics of Identity and Social Advancement in precolonial West Africa," in John O. Hunwick and nancy Lawler (eds.), The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Essays in Honor of Ivor Wilks, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997.

________, Slaves, Danes and African Coast Society: The Danish Slave Trade from West Africa and Afro-Danish Relations on the Eighteenth Century Gold Coast by Per Hernaes. A review in Journal of African Historical Studies, 29, 2 (1997).

________, "Perpetuating Power: Politics and Belief in 18th and 19th Century Asante." Review of T. C. McCaskie, State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante, H-Net Reviews, Michigan State University, Department of History, <H-Africa@MSU.EDU> 13 May 1997.

Heath, Carla W, "Children's Television in Ghana: A Discourse about Modernity," African Affairs, 96 (1996), pp. 261-275.

________, "GTV's Second Channel," Media Monitor, 4 (1996).

Hugon, Anne, "La contradiction missionnaire," CLIO (Revue d'histoire des femmes), automne 1997.

Joselte, Rivallain, "L’homme et l’animal en Afrique," in les empreintes de l’histoire, Mus†um de Dijon, 1995, pp. 36-38.

________, "Le cheval en Afrique d’apr†s les collections du Mus†e de l’Homme," Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, Milan, 1995, pp. 161-174.

________, "Produits p†rissables superficiels: apports de la chimie et de l’ethnologie," Nyame Akuma, 44 (1995), pp. 51-52.

________, "L’Afrique au Sud du Sahara," in Cavaliers d’Afrique, Mus†um d’Histoire Naturelle, Dijon, 1996, pp. 218-222.

________, "Pipes europ†ennes export†es au Golfe de Guin†e," British Archaeological Report, Cambridge, nd., 26p., 5pl.

________, "Money and Weights," in The Dictionary of Art, Londres, Macmillan Publishers, nd., 60. Dact.

Jones, Adam, "West African Trading Settlements, History," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 4., New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1997, pp. 363-365.

________, "Franz Liszt und die Musik Afrikas," Afs- Magazin, Nr. 3, June 1997, pp. 24-27 [refers to Kwasi Boakye].

Kea Ray , "When I Die, I Shall Return to my own Land: An 'Amina' Slave Rebellion in the Danish West Indies, 1733-1734," in The Cloth of Many Colored

Silk, J. Hunwick and N. Lawler, (eds.), Northwestern University Press, 1996..

Korang, K. L. and S. Slemon , "Post-Colonialism and Language," in Writing and Africa, Msiska and Hyland, (eds.), Longman,1997.

Kropp Dakubu, Mary-Esther, "Ghana: People and Culture," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 239-241.

________, "Dagomba," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, p.391.

Kwami, Atta, "Sound Fabric I & II 199 Drawings," Metronome, 1 (London, 1997), pp. 14-15 and 38-39.

Lentz, Carola, "Creating Ethnic Identities in North-western Ghana," in Cora Govers and Hans Vermeulen (eds.), The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness, London: Macmillan, 1977, pp. 31-89.

Manuh, Takyiwaa, "Ghana: Women in the Public and Informal Sectors Under the economic Recovery Programme," in Nalini Visvanathan et al. (eds.), The Women, Gender and Development Reader, London and New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd. 1997.

________, "Wives, Children and Intestate Succession in Ghana," in Gwendolyn Mikell (ed.), African Feminism: The Struggle for Survival in sub-Saharan Africa, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, pp. 77-95.

________, "The Women, Law and Development Movement (WILDAF) and the Struggle for Customary Law Reform in Africa," Third World Legal Studies Journal (1994-95), pp. 207-224.

________, "Diasporas, Unities and the Marketplace: Tracing Changes in Ghanaian Fashion," Journal of African Studies, forthcoming.

McDow, Thomas F., "Nkrumah, Francis Nwia Kofi (Kwame Nkrumah)," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 3, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 329-330.

Mensah Bonsu, "Ghana: Geography and Economy," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 231-234.

Meyer, Brigit, "Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Atitudes Towards Consumption in Contemparary Ghana," Working Paper 1: WOTRO- Project, Globalization and the Construction of Communal Identity, The Hague, 1997.

________, "Christian Mind and Worldly Matters: Religion and Materiality in Nineteenth-century Gold Coast," Journal of Material Culture, 2, 3 (1997), pp. 311-337.

Middleton, John, "Akan," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, 22.

Miescher, Stephen, "Of Documents and Litigants: Disputes on Inheritance in Abetifi:A Town of colonial Ghana," Journal of Legal Pluralism, 39 (1997), pp. 81- 119.

Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Francis,"Assimilation Differences Among Africans in America," Social Forces, 76, 2 (1997), pp. 107-126.

________, with Ye Luo and Evelina Panayotova, "Do Male Reproductive Preferences Really Point to a Need to Refocus Fertility Policy?" Population Research and Policy Review, 16 (1997), pp. 447-455.

________, with Poem van Landewijk, "Men, Women, and the Population Question in Sub-Saharan Africa," African Studies Review 39, 3 (1996), pp. 29-41.

______, with A. Adomako Ampofo, Report of the Study on the Unmet Need of Men and Women in African Fertility Transition, Rockefeller Foundation, 1997. 70 pp.

Nugent, Paul, "Myths of Origin and the Origin of Myth: Local Politics and the Uses of History in Ghana's Volta Region," Working Papers on African Societies, # 22 , 1997 (Berlin: Das Arabische Buch).

Ogbogbo, C., "Sarbah, John Mensah," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 4, New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1997, pp. 41-42.

________, "Cape Coast," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, p. 228.

Owusu-Ansah, David, "Osei Bonsu," in Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, vol. 3, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, p. 367.

________, "Asantewaa, Yaa," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 145-146.

________, "A review of T. C. MaCaskie's State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante," in American Historical Review, June 1996, pp. 887-888.

Owusu-Sarpong, Christiane, Trilingual Anthology of Akan Folktales/ Anthologie trilingue de contes akan (a research project undertaken at the Department of Languages (U.S.T.), with the support of the British Council and the French Embassy (Accra). Fench translation of project was undertaken by Dr. C. Owusu- Sarpong. Other participants in the project included graduate students and faculty from the English section of the Department. To be published (1998) by Department of Book Industry, U.S.T., Kumasi.

________, "The Mm_guo, a text Outside the TEXT? A Semiotic Study," A paper read at the Language Association of Ghana (L..A.G.), Semi-Annual Conference in U.S.T., Kumasi, 16-17 January 1998. (To be published in the Working Papers of the L.A.G.).

________, "Book Review (Compte-rendu) on 'Kwesi Yanka: Speaking of the chief -- _kyeame and the politics of Akan royal rhetoric'," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris, forthcoming.

________, "_ny_ as_m hunu (This is not saying for saying's sake), so said Nana Wenchihene: Retelling the History of Wenchi -- Intertextual and Typological Study," Paper read at the L.A.G. Conference, Legon, June 1997. Also presented at the International Conference organized by the Institute of African Studies (Legon) and the Goethe Institut (Accra) on "A Meeting of Cultures: Perspectives on Mythology," 21-24 October, 1997. To be published in Conference Proceedings.

________, "Language and the Cryptic reality of Witchcraft (bayie) in Asante," paper read at the L.A.G. Conference, Legon, September 1996. To be published in Conference Proceedings.

________, "Les contes, les conteurs et le contage en Afrique de l'Ouest," Paper read at the Workshop on Folktales, U.S.T., Kumasi, November 1996 and published in Le Griot, iv, 2 (1996).

________, "L’†criture m†tiss†e de Marie-Joseph Bonnat dans son Journal (1869-1874), _ partir des cahiers †dit†s et publi†s par Claude-H†l_ne Perrot et Albert van Dantzing dans Marie-Joseph Bonnat et les Ashanti -- Journal (1869-1874)," in Le Journal des Africanistes, 66, 1-2 (Septembre, 1996), pp. 225-254.

Rathbone, Richard, "Ghana: Government," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 2, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1997, pp. 234-235.

________, "Busia, Kofi A.," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1997, pp. 215-216.

________, "Africa and World war II," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 4, New York: Charles Scriber's, 1997, pp. 385-388.

_______, Rising Black Star. Ghana and Britian: Forty Years of Independence, London: The British Council, 1997.

_______, "Chiefs and Nationalists in the Gold Coast: Native Courts, Chieftaincy and Radical Political Change in the Gold Coast, 1950-1960," Working Paper, #4, Basel, Switzerland, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1997.

Stanley, Janet, The Arts of Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, Volume 5, African Studies Association, 1997.

Thoulouis, Gray, "Danquah, Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 402-403.

van der Geest, Sjaak, "Between respect and Reciprocity: Managing Old Age in Rural Ghana," Southern African Journal of Gerontology, 6, 2 (1997), pp. 20-25.

________, "Oud in een Ghanees dorp: Beeld en ervaring [Old in a Ghanaian Community: Image and Experience]," Medische Antropologie, 9, 1 (1997), pp. 74-89.

________, "Money and respect: The Changing Value of Old Age in Rural Ghana," Africa, 67, 4 (1997), pp. 534-559.

Valdez, Sarah, "Accra," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 3-4.

________, "Asante," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, 145.

________, "Kumasi," Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, Vol. 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, p. 475.

Valsecchi, Pierlvigi, "Groups, Politics and Power Routes between Ankobra and Tano," paper presented at the Conference "Power and Identity in West Africa: An international Symposium of Akan Studies" (Urbino 9-11 May 1996), Paris: L'Harmattan (forthcoming).

________, "The 'True Nzama': A layered Identity," L’Uomo (forthcoming).

Yeboa-Dankwa, Laws of God and Linguists Sticks (In Akuapen Twi), No publisher indicated, 1996.


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