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Akan
Women Potters
Cross Cousin Marriage
If a man wants to pass his wealth to his sons, his son's lineage will get the wealth, but if his son marries his sister's daughter, the wealth goes back to the man lineage.
Green always provide the wife, while the orange matrilineage provide the husband
- Required as a chore but ends up as a profession
Kente Fabric
- Mostly used for special occasions and ceremonies
- Yam Festival: celebrating the king and the townspeople are purified of the pollution of the proceeding year
Goverance
Laws
Two forms of Government
Federal Structure
Creator of Earth
High God
Gye Nyame
Asase Yaa
Abosom/Obosom
Goddess of the earth
Centralized bureaucracy
Created by the High god to
minster for him
Dealt with relations between the Kumasi king and neighboring chiefs
Used for capturing slaves
Dealt with collecting tributes, organizing manpower in farms and gold mines
Army
Omanhere
Mostly cavalry
Ruler
Matriarchal lineage
Possessions are pass on on to the females
- Prominent role of woman-matrilineage
- King of Dahomey took thousands of wives for himself
- Slaves
- Ashanti founded a highly structured monarchy
Technology
- Guns
- Brass, bronzes, and golds
- Cavalry
- Terracotta Sculptures-made with clay
- Bauxite
Sources
Trading
Social Stucture
- Traded slaves for guns from European.
- Golds
- Cocos
- Bartle, Phil. "Studies Among the Akan People of West Africa." Studies among the Akan of West Africa; Community, History, Society, Culture. Community Empowerment Collective, 27 Nov. 2012. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/rdi/index.htm
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Market Towns
People from other clans came to trade with
each others
Farming
Centralized Governance
Trees
- Yams,
- Coco
- Sweet potatoes
- Plantains
Oman
State
Asantehene Nana Opoku Ware II
Abusua panin
Abusua Kuo
Omanhene
Coco Trees
oil palm Trees
political bureaucracy
Asantehene
High chief
Family Head
The Family
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Lead by the female
Kuro
Town/village
Ohere
Chief
Elected by the elders of the town or village