ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Abusua, Fante Confederacy, Industrial Revolution

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Georgia Hartman

Document Summary

Anthro 41a lecture notes week 4: colonial occupation in. Lecture 1: social and political organization of the gold coast. Akan family of twi langages (fante, akuapem, asante) ~area where abina and the important men take place. +oman (plural aman): state ruled by chiefs or kings. +real and fictive kin relation organized akan society. ~allow european to push further into interior of continent. +europeans became active trader and political player along gold coast. Balance of power shift from local rulers to europeans. 1850s/1860s: conflict breaks out between asante and british coalition. 1873: british crown send troops to push asante back from coast. +industrial revolution allow enlarge army and commercial power. +british establish themselves as rulers of colony and protectorate. ~protectorate where british rule indirectly through local rulers. *used to make soap and lubricant in industrial machinery. ~granted vast swaths of land to european powers. +transformed africans from trading partner into colonial subjects.