INSTITUTE  OF
AFRICAN  STUDIES

RESEARCH
REVIEW

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VOL.  4  No3
TRINITY TERM  I968

UNIVERSITY  OF  GHANA

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Professor J . H.  Nketia

Rev.  Dr.  G.  Ansre

Mr.  K . N.  Bame

Mrs.  C»  Oppona

Mr.  K.A.  Opoku  (Editor)

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African  Studies,  University  of Ghana,  Legon.

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CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Page

The  Golden  Stool  and the  Oaths  to  the  King

ofAshanti 

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G.P.  Hagan 

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Status  Differentiation  in Ashanti  in  the

Nineteenth  Century:  A  Preliminary  Study

K.  Arhin 

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A  Debut  of  Ghanaian  Traditional  Visual  Art

into  Liturgical  Art  of  the  Christian  Church
of  Ghana 

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RESEARCH REPORTS

The  General  State of  Research  into  the
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History  of  Ghana 

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Primordial  Time and the Abofoo  Dance 

The  Ghanaian  Audience  Response and

Behaviour  to a Theatrical  Experience  of
Poetry and Music 

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Economic  Policy  and the  Distributive  System

in  Ghana  -  1960-1966

Spatial Aspects on the  Interaction  Between
Industrial  Development  and  Urbanization
in  Ghana 

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LIBRARY AND  MUSEUM REPORTS

Excavations at  Jakpasere  -  1968

The Settlement-Mounds  of  Central  Gonja

INSTITUTE  NEWS

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A.K.Quarcoo 

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R.H.K.  Darkwah  65

Drid Williams 

74

J.S.  Kennedy 

81

B.  Beckman 

83

G.  Beckman 

85

R.D.  Mathewson  88

C.  Flight 

94

Conference  on the  Teaching  of  Ghanaian

Languages 

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G.  Ansre

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