M D Mcleod
Biographic Data
| ID | 375626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D Mcleod |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcleod |
| SIGNATURE | MCLEOD M D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On The Spread of Anti-Witchcraft Cults in Modern Asante
This chapter considers some of the factors involved in the spread of anti-witchcraft movements into modern Asante and to touch upon the relationship of these cults to wider aspects of social change. The theories have been put forward to explain the form, chronology and function of a number of movements reported from modern Asante which offered principally to protect their adherents from witchcraft and bad medicine and which specialised in catchin…
Asante gold-weights
The Asante of Ghana are noted for the fact that many of their images, especially those displayed around their political leaders, have a verbal component. To the Asante the significance of many of these wooden or metal images lies not only in their physical form but in the fact that they, in some way, call to mind well-known sayings, proverbs or aphorisms (ebe). In this paper I wish to discuss the nexus between these two communication systems: the…
The Asante
The Asante
The Asante
Yoruba Religious Cults
Kingdoms of Bronze
The Tribal Image
Journal Article The Tribal Image Get access The Tribal Image, by William Fagg. British Museum, 1970. 60pp. 40p. Divine Kingship in Africa, by William Fagg. British Museum, 1970. 60pp. 47p. Introduction to Traditional Art of Western Africa, by E. V. Asihene. 1972. 88pp. £3·00. Peoples and Cultures, exhibition, Overseas Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon, 1972. 244pp. n.p. Makonde, edited by Hermann Pollig. Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, 1971. 114pp. n…
Goldweights of Asante
Goldweights of Asante
Asante gold-weights
The Asante of Ghana are noted for the fact that many of their images, especially those displayed around their political leaders, have a verbal component. To the Asante the significance of many of these wooden or metal images lies not only in their physical form but in the fact that they, in some way, call to mind well-known sayings, proverbs or aphorisms (ebe). In this paper I wish to discuss the nexus between these two communication systems: the…
Goldweights of Asante
The Tribal Image
Journal Article The Tribal Image Get access The Tribal Image, by William Fagg. British Museum, 1970. 60pp. 40p. Divine Kingship in Africa, by William Fagg. British Museum, 1970. 60pp. 47p. Introduction to Traditional Art of Western Africa, by E. V. Asihene. 1972. 88pp. £3·00. Peoples and Cultures, exhibition, Overseas Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon, 1972. 244pp. n.p. Makonde, edited by Hermann Pollig. Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, 1971. 114pp. n…
Yoruba Religious Cults
Kingdoms of Bronze
The Asante
The Asante
The Asante
Asante gold-weights
The Asante of Ghana are noted for the fact that many of their images, especially those displayed around their political leaders, have a verbal component. To the Asante the significance of many of these wooden or metal images lies not only in their physical form but in the fact that they, in some way, call to mind well-known sayings, proverbs or aphorisms (ebe). In this paper I wish to discuss the nexus between these two communication systems: the…
On The Spread of Anti-Witchcraft Cults in Modern Asante
This chapter considers some of the factors involved in the spread of anti-witchcraft movements into modern Asante and to touch upon the relationship of these cults to wider aspects of social change. The theories have been put forward to explain the form, chronology and function of a number of movements reported from modern Asante which offered principally to protect their adherents from witchcraft and bad medicine and which specialised in catchin…
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)