Author Question: After escaping in the 1600s from Agokoli, the tyrannical king of Notsie, the Ewe-speakers founded ... (Read 59 times)

schs14 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

After escaping in the 1600s from Agokoli, the tyrannical king of Notsie, the Ewe-speakers founded settlements near the mouth of the Volta River (see map in WOM, p. 82). What was the political structure of the Ewe society? What is the unit Ewe social life?

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Question 2

Explain how the beliefs and attitudes of Africans about their music can result in intercultural misunderstanding for a scientifically minded person from a concert-music-culture.

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mcni194 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

territorial divisions headed by a chief (as differentiated from a hierarchical concentration of power within a large state, that we will see in the Mande and Dagbamba kingdoms)
The unit of Ewe social life is the extended familypeople related in lineage to a common ancestor.

Answer to Question 2

A person from a concert-music-culture (most Westerners) is used to thinking of music as an event separate from daily life and often created as art for art's sake. Such a person might plan to attend concerts of art music performed by musicians who may have had years of specialized conservatory training. An African going about his daily life, on the other hand, may make musical sounds with his community that are the voices of his ancestors. See also answer to question 9. --Beliefs and Values (7) above.