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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Arhin, Kwame
Title:
Peasants in 19th-century Asante
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Current anthropology -- Vol. 24, no. 4
Published By: Original publisher
Current anthropology -- Vol. 24, no. 4
Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. 1983. 471-480
p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Kwame Arhin
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2000. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Akan (FE12)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Urban and rural life (369);
Real property (423);
Production and supply (433);
Retail marketing (443);
Lineages (613);
Territorial hierarchy (631);
Cities (633);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Arhin examines if the Asante was a peasant
society prior to its incorporation into the world capitalist system in the nineteenth
century. He discusses land ownership (owned by matriclans) and the organization of
production. According to Arhin, the Asante production unit is ‘conjugal’ and includes
husband, wife, adolescent children, pawns, and slaves. ‘The state heavily extracted
surpluses from all producers for its upkeep and for the purpose of military and political
expansion. (474)’ Arhin also finds that the residents of the capital Kumasi (KUMASIFO)
considered themselves more civilized than villagers (KURASEFO) from the surrounding
countryside. Based on this evidence, Arhin concludes that a peasantry did exist in Asante
before the colonial period. The document includes the comments of eight scholars and
Arhin's response.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
35
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fe12-035
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-480)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
Not Specified
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Historian-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard ;1999
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1600-1900
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ashanti; Ghana
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Akan (African people)
