Legon: Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Date: 2001. 8 x 11.5 Paperback in Very Good condition. Wear to edges.. Hundreds of line drawings. Adinkra cloth symbols are very popular in Ghana where the cloth is used in political and religious rituals, funerals and everyday wear. It is made by hand with the block and screen printing technique. The symbols are also used in wood carving, architecture, jewelry and ceramics. This book views the adinkra cloth symbols as a form of writing. The author is a professor at Marshall University in West Virginia. 2001. Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems ISBN 9988007914 9789988007911 [US]

ISBN10: 9988007914, ISBN13: 9789988007911, [publisher: Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems] Softcover Adinkra symbols visually integrate striking aesthetic power, evocative language and mathematical structures and philosophical concepts. The book views the adinkra cloth symbols as a writing system. It develops themes from the texts encoded in the proverbs, stories and maxims associated with the symbols. The themes covered include Akan cosmology, social and political organization, social and ethical values, economics and Akan knowledge systems.
[Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
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