Akan-Ashanti Folk-tales
Author | : Robert Sutherland Rattray |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Robert Sutherland Rattray |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : R. S Rattray |
Publisher | : Prince Sarfo-Adu |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2023-08-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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This is a collection of 75 Ashanti tales recorded in the Ashanti and Kwawu areas of Ghana.Each folktale in Twi/Akan dialect of the Tshi language, is followed by an English translation. The English translation is, throughout, made as nearly literal as possible.(At this point, one meets a certain difficulty in a conflict between a desire for accuracy and an endeavour to give a translation acceptable to English ears). First published in 1930 by R.S. Rattray, this edition features a modern Akan/Twi orthography with a brief introduction to the Language. Ashanti folktales often tell a moral lesson, describe a myth, or answer a question about the natural world. Most of the Ashanti tales use animal characters to represent human qualities such as jealousy, honesty, greed, and bravery. Ananse, the spider, is a trickster figure who appears in many of the Ashanti tales. With regard to the classification of these stories, it will be observed that the majority of them fall under one or other of the well-known headings: drolls and cumulative tales; apologues or tales with a moral; aetiological stories, accounting for physical characteristics in men and beasts, e.g. How the Leopard became Spotted; etymological tales, e.g. "How the Ram came to be called Odwanini". Each and all of the stories in this volume would, however, be classed by the Akan-speaking African under the generic title of “Anansesɛm” (Spider stories), whether the spider appeared in the tale or not.
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Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Publisher | : Prince Sarfo-Adu |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2024-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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This is a collection of 75 Ashanti tales recorded in the Ashanti and Kwawu areas of Ghana.Each folktale in Twi/Akan dialect of the Tshi language, is followed by an English translation. The English translation is, throughout, made as nearly literal as possible.(At this point, one meets a certain difficulty in a conflict between a desire for accuracy and an endeavour to give a translation acceptable to English ears). First published in 1930 by R.S. Rattray, this edition features a modern Akan/Twi orthography with a brief introduction to the Language. Ashanti folktales often tell a moral lesson, describe a myth, or answer a question about the natural world. Most of the Ashanti tales use animal characters to represent human qualities such as jealousy, honesty, greed, and bravery. Ananse, the spider, is a trickster figure who appears in many of the Ashanti tales. With regard to the classification of these stories, it will be observed that the majority of them fall under one or other of the well-known headings: drolls and cumulative tales; apologues or tales with a moral; aetiological stories, accounting for physical characteristics in men and beasts, e.g. How the Leopard became Spotted; etymological tales, e.g. How the Ram came to be called Odwanini. Each and all of the stories in this volume would, however, be classed by the Akan-speaking African under the generic title of “Anansesɛm” (Spider stories), whether the spider appeared in the tale or not.
Author | : Robert Sutherland Rattray |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Akan (African people) |
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Author | : Robert Sutherland RATTRAY |
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Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1930 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Ashanti (African people) |
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Author | : Kwesi Yankah |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Anon E. Mouse |
Publisher | : Abela Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2016-12-10 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1907256520 |
The 13 Anansi stories in this short volume were originally, and unusually, an appendix to Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webbe Dasent. Why he chose to include folklore from Africa and the Caribbean within a volume of Norse folklore has been forgotten in the mists of time. Abela Publishing has elected to re-publish these as a volume in their own right as an aide to Edgbarrow School’s fundraising campaign supporting the SOS Children’s Village in Asiakwa, Ghana. ANANSI or Ahnansi (Ah-nahn-see) “the trickster” is a cunning and intelligent spider and is one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore. The Anansi tales are believed to have originated in the Ashanti tribe in Ghana. (The word Anansi is Akan and means, simply, spider.) They later spread to other Akan groups and then to the West Indies, Suriname, and the Netherlands Antilles. On Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire he is known as Nanzi, and his wife as Shi Maria. He is also known as Ananse, Kwaku Ananse, and Anancy; and in the Southern United States he has evolved into Aunt Nancy. He is a spider, but often acts and appears as a man. The story of Anansi is akin to the Coyote or Raven the trickster found in many Native American cultures.
Author | : Richard A. Spears |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1991-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 081010993X |
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.