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Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies the high point of rhetoric in traditional and contemporary Africa, and explores in rich details the proverb's creative potential, authorship and effectiveness in crisis management. Yankah elevates the documentation of the African proverb beyond decontextualized compilations, and portrays the proverb as a dynamic communicative strategy in which form, meaning and logic are in constant flux. The study, which focuses on the Akan of Ghana, situates the proverb in the heart of real life discourse interactions and monitors its rhetorical efficacy on the basis of indigenous aesthetics. The book should be of value to folklorists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, literary scholars and students of African studies and communications.
- Sales Rank: #1564846 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-28
- Released on: 2013-03-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
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�Kwesi Yankahs Studie...darf vorbehaltlos als eine Perle der Sprichw�rterforschung bezeichnet werden.(...) Die eigentliche Faszination dieses Werkes liegt in der Kombination von theoretischer Einsicht und ethnographischen Beobachtungen.� (Regina Bendix, Schweizerisches Archiv f�r Volkskunde)
�This work provides the most thorough understanding of the meaning of this particular speech form in the culture, thereby contributing to a fuller understanding of the whole process of cognition and negotiation, and to concepts of the self in Akan. It thus contributes to the understanding of Akan culture as much as to that of rhetoric and speech performance. (...) Yankah's work is equally important to West African scholars.� (B.J.Stoeltje, Journal of Folklore Research)
��A! brilliant work. Yankah is to be commended for this study, important not only for proverb lore but also for Africanist studies that deal with methodological problems of general interest to Comparative Literature.� (Patrick Kobina Kilson, Recherche Litt�raire)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
This book pretty much says it all, and does it very well
By Phil Rogers
A brilliant exposition, which covers every aspect and type of use made of the art of proverbs in this linguistic region (the Akan peoples inhabit much of the southern half of Ghana, and include the large sub-groups Ashanti and Fante, as well as several others). There are many books which collect large numbers of African proverbs, Akan/Ashanti and otherwise, but few give any sort of pithy account as to how they are used by the people, the part creativity plays in their use, and so on. Nor do they attempt to portray the brilliance of many of the users, how the lists of proverbs are maintained, how choosing a proverb is contextually/determined in a specific situation, etc. There is even the factor of how the correct vs. incorrect and/or creative use of a proverb leads to respect being gained or lessened by the individual using it.
There are proverb performance artists; proverbs are used during judicial proceedings, and in educational and religious contexts. Mr. Kwesi Yankah does a masterly job of dissecting the rhetoric, by citing 72 specific proverbs, documenting and further explaining how each was used in a specific situation. The textual analysis is exemplary. For each of the 72 situations, he identifies the type of interaction (e.g. formal judicial proceedings, church sermon, conversation between two people etc.), size of audience, age and gender and/or occupation of the proverb speaker, place/location, and original language. If the proverb was used in the midst of a longer oratorical passage, enough of that verbiage is included so the context is evident - the proverb itself is italicized.
In an appendix, Yankah lists these 72 situational proverbs in Twi (the language of the Akan peoples) along with the equivalent English. All in all, the treatise is well documented with appropriate footnotes, and there is an ample 14-page bibliography of works cited. This is a well-designed and well-executed work - it's not too difficult reading even for a non-specialist such as myself. There are wider implications for world culture as a whole: it helps to dispel the idea (which is probably still floating around) that African discourse is somehow of less substance than that of say, those of Euro-America and Asia. In 1985, it won Indiana University's Esther Kinsley Award for Best Dissertation.
[One of the earliest Akan proverb collections, J. G. Christaller's 'Tshi Proverbs' (1879), had an odious preface which stated that, in effect, the main use for such a work would be for Christian missionaries to better understand how to manipulate the natives to convert to his religion. Christaller's proverbs remained untranslated until later, when Rattray and others began that further work, and for the same stated objective. Many of these other early collectors/translators were also missionaries.]
Note that here Mr. Yankah's surname is spelled incorrectly as "Yanka". For other of his various, available works - please search the correct spelling.
Also please note that there is a serious pagination error in chapter 8: "Proverb Rhetoric and the Judicial Process". You'll have to read the pages in the following order: 214 . . . 218 . . . 215 . . . 216 . . .217 . . . 219. After that everything reverts to normal.
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