Asante gold-weights
Images and words
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11846307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M D Mcleod, Madison McLeod (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-295 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Word & Image (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-6286 • E-ISSN: 1943-2178 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02666286.1987.10435386 |
| OpenAlex | W2011131205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 palpable, fairly durable objects and those verbal forms sometimes associated with them. I also wish to raise more general questions about such multi-code communication and the factors which govern its effectiveness. Finally I suggest that the study of Mrican art may require us to accept that some parts of it are of minor importance, and that some parts of it are little more than gratuitous elaborations upon far more important underlying structures. In short not everything we see should be treated with the same seriousness or solemnity
Aesthetics · Art · Code (set theory · Epistemology · Humanities · Literature · Minor (academic · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Seriousness · Wish · African history and culture studies · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |