title: AKAN POTESTARIAN-CULTURAL REGION IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF GHANA (ON THE PROBLEM OF THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL CULTURES OF THE LIBERATED COUNTRIES OF AFRICA)
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Popov, Vladimir A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-11-18T16:44:47Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-11-18T16:44:47Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288064135.24
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47959
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Republic of Ghana (former British colony of the Gold Coast) inherited ethnic
  heterogeneity of its population from the colonial period along with its state borders.
  The southern and central regions of Ghana are inhabited by Akans, whose potestarianpolitical
  culture had the most serious impact on the formation and functioning of the
  political culture of the whole country. The article is devoted to the identification and
  characterization of the main components of the traditional potestarian-political culture
  of the Akans, among which the following are the most significant: 1) matrilineality of
  inheritance of status and property; 2) avunculate; 3) co-ruling of the chief (ohene) and
  his female sibling (ohema); 4) the institute of elders (panin), who influence power-andgovernance
  relations through the decisions of the councils of elders (of the village
  communities, chiefdoms or unions of chiefdoms); 5) the institute of okyeame —
  intermediaries (“linguists”) between the chiefs and their subjects; 6) the formations of
  the traditional order of battle as the basis of the administrative-territorial division of
  polities (omans); 7) the paramilitary nature of the potestarity apparatus and political
  structure of the omans; 8) special symbols and attributes of traditional power: stoolthrones,
  umbrellas, swords, wands and gold jewelry; 9) Odwira (Apafram) and Adae
  festivals associated with the consecration of a new crop of yams and the veneration
  (commemoration and propitiation) of ancestors. The author also defines the Akanian
  symbols and attributes of power that have already become an integral part of the all-
  Ghana political culture: The State Sword, the Wand of the Parliamentary Speaker and
  the Chair of the President of Ghana.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities;Volume 6
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Africa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ghana
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Akans
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: potestarian-cultural region
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: symbols and attributes of power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traditionalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: AKAN POTESTARIAN-CULTURAL REGION IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF GHANA (ON THE PROBLEM OF THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL CULTURES OF THE LIBERATED COUNTRIES OF AFRICA)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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