A01=Roger S. Gocking
Author_Roger S. Gocking
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761813545
- Weight: 574g
- Dimensions: 161 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 1999
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Facing Two Ways explores the interaction between European and African cultures within the setting of Ghana's main coastal communities. Roger S. Gocking focuses on the emergence of a distinctive ethno-cultural constellation that arose from the interaction between African and European cultures and between African cultures in the heterogeneous social setting of the coast. He recognizes nationalism as the most visible, but not necessarily the most important feature of life in coastal Africa from the late nineteenth century through the 1940's. Instead, Gocking emphasizes local initiatives in shaping African reactions to the colonial situation, including the policies of the mission churches, the operation of the judicial system, political life, and the institution of the family. He also discusses the escalation of cross fertilization of African cultures, known as the "Akanization" of the Southern Ghana area indirectly caused by colonialism.
Roger S. Gocking is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Third World Studies Committee in the Department of Civic and Cultural Studies at Mercy College.
