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Akan Arts and Aesthetics


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Akan Arts and Aesthetics: Elements of Change in a Ghanaian Indigenous Knowledge System DM Warren, editor. Features much terminology on all aspects of Akan art and aesthetic critique. (PDF file) $25.00

Atonde - Forged Items
Egude - Cast Items
Anwende - Woven/molded items
Nsenede - Carved Items
Anigyede - Performed Items
Mfoninide - Graphic Items
Akambode - Incised Items
Takuabode - Plaited Items
Odanside - Architectural Items

A. An ethnoscientific Approach to Akan Arts and Aesthetics by D. M. Warren and J. Kweku Andrews


1. Introduction
2. Ethnoscience and Taxonomic Classification of Akan Arts
3. The Akan Art Evaluators
4. Akan Criteria and Vocabulary in Evaluation
5. Conclusion: Towards the Definition of an Akan Aesthetic

B. The Dynamics of Persistence and Change in Akan Aesthetics by D.M. Warren and J. Kweku Andrews


1. Introduction
2. Procedures and Methods for Studying Change
3. Conclusions

C. Ethnoscience and Aesthetics: The Case of Akan Culture by D.M. Warren

1. Introduction
2. Ethnoscience and Cross-Cultural Communications
3. The Akan Language as a Link between Akan Verbal and Visual Arts
4. Conclusions