Figures
7.1 Diagram of the two-way relation between popular & traditional African music. The Akan konkoma of the 1930s and 1940s 126
10.1 Item representing the life cycle of the physical cosmos and universe. Theme one: symbolic representation of the cosmic realm as life source (the space-above or rain and the space-below or earth). © Alexis B. Tengan 188
10.2 Items representing the metaphysical abstraction of the cosmos and universe. Theme two: objects and beings as source agents of life transmission (the plant and mineral kingdoms). © Alexis B. Tengan 189
10.3 Items representing the life cycle of the undomesticated. Theme three: the reproduction of life in the human and animal kingdom (sexuality and fertilisation). © Alexis B. Tengan 190
10.4 Life transmission and sustenance of the life cycle. Theme four: life sustenance (marriage, childbearing and rearing). © Alexis B. Tengan 191
10.5 Diagnostic items and the cyclical passing of life. Theme five: life sustenance (disease and life threats and diagnostic process). © Alexis B. Tengan 192
10.6 Healing items and the external body: maintaining life in the human cycle. Theme six: life sustenance (prescriptive and healing process). © Alexis B. Tengan 193
10.7 Healing items and the internal body: maintaining life in the human cycle. Theme seven: medicine and life conservation. © Alexis B. Tengan 194
Tables
10.1 List of items from basket one 181
10.2 List of items from basket two 182
13.1 Variation in the pronunciation of some Ga words 259