I Will Not Eat Stone A Woman's History of Colonial Asante

This long awaited and definitive work on gender in Asante during the early twentieth century provides a needed balance to emphasis on chiefship and external relations evident thus far in the historical scholarship on colonial and pre-colonial Asante. I am certainly looking forward to using this book in every possible African studies course I teach. Gracia Clark, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University By bringing women into the mainstream of Asante historiography, the authors move us towards that singularly elusive goal: the realization of a comprehensive Asante social history. Ivor Wilks Professor Emeritus, African History Northwestern University In an admirable collaborative effort, Jean Allman and Victoria Tashjian focus on commodity production, family labor and reproduction in colonial Asante. The authors demonstrate how broader social and economic forcescash cropping, trade, monetization of the economy, British rule, and Christian missionsrecast the terms of domestic stAllman, Jean B. is the author of 'I Will Not Eat Stone A Woman's History of Colonial Asante' with ISBN 9780325070018 and ISBN 0325070016.