Harcourt Fuller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harcourt Fuller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harcourt |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuller |
| SIGNATURE | FULLER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Praktisk-Teologiske Seminar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica, by Jean Besson
While numerous anthropological and historical works have been written on the Maroons, there is a dearth of comparative treatises considering the binary of creolization and ethnic identity formation among modern Maroons and their freed-slave descendant counterparts in the Americas.Veteran Caribbeanist Jean Besson-who has carried out extensive fieldwork in the region-expertly fills this gap here by concentrating on three "transnational" communities…
Investigating the "Taíno" ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons
While scholars like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have popularized the use of genetic data (DNA) as a source of African American history and ancestry, similar studies are lacking for other peoples of African descent. The current study is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project undertaken by a historian of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and a genetic anthropologist. Methodologically, we incorporate traditional sources of hi…
Maroon History, Music, and Sacred Sounds in the Americas: A Jamaican Case
This article explores the music of Maroon nations in the Americas as a source of Africana spirituality, (oral) history, and culture. It draws on the author's multidisciplinary research and engagement with the Windward Maroons of Jamaica, which include, inter alia, the production of a documentary film (Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess) on their most sacred ancestor, the eighteenth-century leader Granny Nanny; a recorded album, Granny Nan…
The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah
Nkrumah’s stronghold on power, his bitter rivalry with the Asantes and other groups, and the controversial laws that he had passed jailing some of his political rivals made him a target for violence, symbolically and physically. During his presidency as mentioned in chapter 6, an Asante man had threatened violence against the construction of a new statue of Nkrumah in Kumasi in 1957, while his Accra statue was actually bombed in 1961. There were …
Conclusion
During the African Revolution in the mid- to late twentieth century, one of the primary and most daunting tasks of the immediate postcolonial era was the construction of new national identities. This reinvention of African identity was not only targeted toward creating a unique national identity that was distinct from colonial notions of who Africans were. It was also a project to realign precolonial ethnonational identities into national ones. I…
Philatelic Nationalism
African nationalists employed postal iconographies to legitimize their rule, something that they had learnt from the departing European imperial powers. British colonial stamps typically featured the head of the reigning monarch overlooking a scenery that represented the colonial territory and people. After the United Kingdom invented the world’s first modern postage stamp in 1840 (commonly referred to as the Penny Black), the Universal Postal Un…
Monumental Nationalism
A monument is “the permanent structure, building, erections ... made at the place to mark the memory of a historical event, action, place or person ...”1 As physical structures, monuments are the embodiment of foundational myths, memories, and philosophies, and serve as official sites for the commemoration of war victories and the martyrs who died for the state, among other functions.2 The proliferation of statuary to memorialize a certain sociop…
Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor
It has been the practice of almost every nation and nation-state in modern times to designate a founding father(s), whether living or dead—to plant the seeds of the nation’s birth. And there was no question about who Ghana’s founding father was in an independent Ghana. The first verse of the “Nkrumah Pledge,” which was sung by primary school children every morning during devotion (after the Lord’s Prayer), began “Nkrumah Never Dies, Nkrumah is ou…
Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State
One common feature of all independent nation-states—both Western and non-Western—is that they possess unique national symbols such as a national flag, a national anthem, a coat of arms, and other banal insignia and emblems to distinguish them from other nation-states. For the newly independent countries that want to emerge from international obscurity, the creation of unique symbols of nationhood is even more pressing. Cerulo notes, “Since the in…
Exhibiting the Nation
In their quest to gain complete independence from Europe and to consolidate the new nations, nationalist leaders and adherents of the négritude movement, such as Aimé Césaire (Martiniquan poet, intellectual and politician), Léopold Sédar Senghor (the first president of Senegal), as well as Kwame Nkrumah (who advanced the ideology of the African Personality), sought to highlight the common cultural and political history of Africa. 1 The positive a…
The Death and Symbolic “Resurrection” of Kwame Nkrumah
In exile, Nkrumah had lots of time to reassess his time in power and ponder the factors that led to his downfall. For one, he blamed the resilience of what he saw as “tribalism” in national politics as culpable for the coup that removed him from power. As a nationalist, Nkrumah tried to downplay tribalism in Ghanaian politics and stressed regional and tribal unity as necessary for nation-building. Having fought an uphill battle against traditiona…
Economic Nationalism
Between independence and the 1960s when the country became a republic, Ghana’s economic and social fortunes seemed promising, although socioeconomically the cocoa-growing regions of the south fared far better than the northern savanna. The country had a population of 6.2 million in 1957, with a 2.5 percent annual population growth rate, one of the highest in West Africa; life expectancy increased from 39.5 years in 1948 to 45.5 years in 1960; the…
From “Redeemer” to Redeemed?
As stated in previous chapters, Kwame Nkrumah was removed from power in a military and police coup staged by the National Liberation Council on February 24, 1966. In the almost five decades since the coup, his historical legacy has gone through a process of rejection, reevaluation, reconstruction, and redemption within and outside of Ghana. Since the late 1970s in particular, successive administrations have sought to symbolically capitalize on th…
Pan-African Nationalism
Known as much for being a Ghanaian nationalist as well as a Pan- African nationalist, Nkrumah utilized the symbols of nationhood at his disposal to articulate and promote African unity. His emphasis that all Africans should unite along cultural, political, economic, and military lines was expressed in museum exhibits and on postage stamps. With respect to the display of Pan-African militancy and the defense of Africa, Nkrumah made two significant…
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism
Introduction: The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism 1. Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State 2. Philatelic Nationalism 3. Economic Nationalism 4. Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor 5. Exhibiting the Nation 6. Monumental Nationalism 7. Pan-African Nationalism 8. The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah 9. The Death and Resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah Conclusion: From Redeemer to Redeemed
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the
Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952–2009
Originally published in: Fuller, H. “Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952 – 2009.” African Arts 47.4 (Winter 2014): 58-71. doi:10.1162/AFAR_a_00183
Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor: Kwame Nkrumah, symbolic nationalism and the iconography of Ghanaian money 1957 – the Golden Jubilee
During his tenure as premier from independence in 1957 until he was ousted by a military and police coup in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah was the living personification of the Ghanaian nation‐state. As the self‐proclaimed Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor– Founder of the State of Ghana – his image was minted on the new national money and printed on postage stamps. He erected a monument of himself in Accra, changed the national anthem to make references to hims…
Asen Seminar Overview 2007–2008
Seminar Chairs' Report for SEN, February 2007
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the
Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor: Kwame Nkrumah, symbolic nationalism and the iconography of Ghanaian money 1957 – the Golden Jubilee
During his tenure as premier from independence in 1957 until he was ousted by a military and police coup in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah was the living personification of the Ghanaian nation‐state. As the self‐proclaimed Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor– Founder of the State of Ghana – his image was minted on the new national money and printed on postage stamps. He erected a monument of himself in Accra, changed the national anthem to make references to hims…
Investigating the "Taíno" ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons
While scholars like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have popularized the use of genetic data (DNA) as a source of African American history and ancestry, similar studies are lacking for other peoples of African descent. The current study is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project undertaken by a historian of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and a genetic anthropologist. Methodologically, we incorporate traditional sources of hi…
Maroon History, Music, and Sacred Sounds in the Americas: A Jamaican Case
This article explores the music of Maroon nations in the Americas as a source of Africana spirituality, (oral) history, and culture. It draws on the author's multidisciplinary research and engagement with the Windward Maroons of Jamaica, which include, inter alia, the production of a documentary film (Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess) on their most sacred ancestor, the eighteenth-century leader Granny Nanny; a recorded album, Granny Nan…
Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952–2009
Originally published in: Fuller, H. “Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952 – 2009.” African Arts 47.4 (Winter 2014): 58-71. doi:10.1162/AFAR_a_00183
Asen Seminar Overview 2007–2008
Seminar Chairs' Report for SEN, February 2007
Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor: Kwame Nkrumah, symbolic nationalism and the iconography of Ghanaian money 1957 – the Golden Jubilee
During his tenure as premier from independence in 1957 until he was ousted by a military and police coup in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah was the living personification of the Ghanaian nation‐state. As the self‐proclaimed Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor– Founder of the State of Ghana – his image was minted on the new national money and printed on postage stamps. He erected a monument of himself in Accra, changed the national anthem to make references to hims…
The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah
Nkrumah’s stronghold on power, his bitter rivalry with the Asantes and other groups, and the controversial laws that he had passed jailing some of his political rivals made him a target for violence, symbolically and physically. During his presidency as mentioned in chapter 6, an Asante man had threatened violence against the construction of a new statue of Nkrumah in Kumasi in 1957, while his Accra statue was actually bombed in 1961. There were …
Conclusion
During the African Revolution in the mid- to late twentieth century, one of the primary and most daunting tasks of the immediate postcolonial era was the construction of new national identities. This reinvention of African identity was not only targeted toward creating a unique national identity that was distinct from colonial notions of who Africans were. It was also a project to realign precolonial ethnonational identities into national ones. I…
Philatelic Nationalism
African nationalists employed postal iconographies to legitimize their rule, something that they had learnt from the departing European imperial powers. British colonial stamps typically featured the head of the reigning monarch overlooking a scenery that represented the colonial territory and people. After the United Kingdom invented the world’s first modern postage stamp in 1840 (commonly referred to as the Penny Black), the Universal Postal Un…
Monumental Nationalism
A monument is “the permanent structure, building, erections ... made at the place to mark the memory of a historical event, action, place or person ...”1 As physical structures, monuments are the embodiment of foundational myths, memories, and philosophies, and serve as official sites for the commemoration of war victories and the martyrs who died for the state, among other functions.2 The proliferation of statuary to memorialize a certain sociop…
Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor
It has been the practice of almost every nation and nation-state in modern times to designate a founding father(s), whether living or dead—to plant the seeds of the nation’s birth. And there was no question about who Ghana’s founding father was in an independent Ghana. The first verse of the “Nkrumah Pledge,” which was sung by primary school children every morning during devotion (after the Lord’s Prayer), began “Nkrumah Never Dies, Nkrumah is ou…
Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State
One common feature of all independent nation-states—both Western and non-Western—is that they possess unique national symbols such as a national flag, a national anthem, a coat of arms, and other banal insignia and emblems to distinguish them from other nation-states. For the newly independent countries that want to emerge from international obscurity, the creation of unique symbols of nationhood is even more pressing. Cerulo notes, “Since the in…
Exhibiting the Nation
In their quest to gain complete independence from Europe and to consolidate the new nations, nationalist leaders and adherents of the négritude movement, such as Aimé Césaire (Martiniquan poet, intellectual and politician), Léopold Sédar Senghor (the first president of Senegal), as well as Kwame Nkrumah (who advanced the ideology of the African Personality), sought to highlight the common cultural and political history of Africa. 1 The positive a…
The Death and Symbolic “Resurrection” of Kwame Nkrumah
In exile, Nkrumah had lots of time to reassess his time in power and ponder the factors that led to his downfall. For one, he blamed the resilience of what he saw as “tribalism” in national politics as culpable for the coup that removed him from power. As a nationalist, Nkrumah tried to downplay tribalism in Ghanaian politics and stressed regional and tribal unity as necessary for nation-building. Having fought an uphill battle against traditiona…
Economic Nationalism
Between independence and the 1960s when the country became a republic, Ghana’s economic and social fortunes seemed promising, although socioeconomically the cocoa-growing regions of the south fared far better than the northern savanna. The country had a population of 6.2 million in 1957, with a 2.5 percent annual population growth rate, one of the highest in West Africa; life expectancy increased from 39.5 years in 1948 to 45.5 years in 1960; the…
From “Redeemer” to Redeemed?
As stated in previous chapters, Kwame Nkrumah was removed from power in a military and police coup staged by the National Liberation Council on February 24, 1966. In the almost five decades since the coup, his historical legacy has gone through a process of rejection, reevaluation, reconstruction, and redemption within and outside of Ghana. Since the late 1970s in particular, successive administrations have sought to symbolically capitalize on th…
Pan-African Nationalism
Known as much for being a Ghanaian nationalist as well as a Pan- African nationalist, Nkrumah utilized the symbols of nationhood at his disposal to articulate and promote African unity. His emphasis that all Africans should unite along cultural, political, economic, and military lines was expressed in museum exhibits and on postage stamps. With respect to the display of Pan-African militancy and the defense of Africa, Nkrumah made two significant…
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism
Introduction: The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism 1. Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State 2. Philatelic Nationalism 3. Economic Nationalism 4. Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor 5. Exhibiting the Nation 6. Monumental Nationalism 7. Pan-African Nationalism 8. The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah 9. The Death and Resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah Conclusion: From Redeemer to Redeemed
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the
Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952–2009
Originally published in: Fuller, H. “Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952 – 2009.” African Arts 47.4 (Winter 2014): 58-71. doi:10.1162/AFAR_a_00183
Maroon History, Music, and Sacred Sounds in the Americas: A Jamaican Case
This article explores the music of Maroon nations in the Americas as a source of Africana spirituality, (oral) history, and culture. It draws on the author's multidisciplinary research and engagement with the Windward Maroons of Jamaica, which include, inter alia, the production of a documentary film (Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess) on their most sacred ancestor, the eighteenth-century leader Granny Nanny; a recorded album, Granny Nan…
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica, by Jean Besson
While numerous anthropological and historical works have been written on the Maroons, there is a dearth of comparative treatises considering the binary of creolization and ethnic identity formation among modern Maroons and their freed-slave descendant counterparts in the Americas.Veteran Caribbeanist Jean Besson-who has carried out extensive fieldwork in the region-expertly fills this gap here by concentrating on three "transnational" communities…
Investigating the "Taíno" ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons
While scholars like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have popularized the use of genetic data (DNA) as a source of African American history and ancestry, similar studies are lacking for other peoples of African descent. The current study is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project undertaken by a historian of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and a genetic anthropologist. Methodologically, we incorporate traditional sources of hi…
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