A Drummer's Testament: Table of Contents

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A DRUMMER'S TESTAMENT: Dagbamba Society and Culture in the Twentieth Century

INTRODUCTORY SECTIONS
VOLUME I: THE WORK OF DRUMMING
VOLUME II: OLD TALKS: DRUMMERS, CHIEFS, HISTORY, AND RELIGION
VOLUME III: IN OUR LIVING
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

INTRODUCTORY SECTIONS

FRONT MATTER
Research Associates and Consultants
Co-Authors
Table of Contents <PDF>
Expanded Table of Contents <PDF>
Guide to Pronunciation and Orthography <PDF>
Acknowledgments <PDF>
Maps
Map 1: Ghana 1977 <PDF > <JPG>
Map 2: Northern Ghana 1977 <PDF > <JPG>
Map 3: Dagbon 1977 <PDF > <JPG>

JOHN CHERNOFF'S INTRODUCTION
1. Preamble: Trees <PDF>
2. Dagbon: Close from a Distance <PDF>
3. Relative Systems <PDF>
4. The Anthropological Heritage <PDF>
5. Dagbon: Closing the Distance <PDF>
6. The Ethnographic Seed <PDF>
7. The Translation <>PDF>
8. The Creative <PDF>
9. Testament: The Eulogy of Alhaji Mumuni <PDF>
10. The Treasure <PDF>
11. The Receptive <PDF>

Volume I: THE WORK OF DRUMMING

Part 1: ALHAJI IBRAHIM'S INTRODUCTION TO THE DAGBAMBA WAY OF LIVING
1. The Benefits of Friendship and Why We Should Do the Work as a Group <PDF>
2. The Dagbamba Way of Living in the Villages and in the Towns <PDF>
3. The Sense of Dagbamba and Their Living in the Olden Days <PDF>
4. Respect and the Dagbamba Way of Living Together <PDF>
5. The Way of a Stranger and How a Stranger Should Live in Dagbon <PDF>
6. Greetings and Respect in Dagbon <PDF>
7. How Dagbamba Send Messengers <PDF>
8. The Debt of the Stomach <PDF>
9. Patience, Truth, and How We Should Do the Talks <PDF>

Part 2: DRUMMERS AND DRUMMING IN DAGBON
10. The Work of Drumming <PDF>
11. The Respect of Drumming and How Drumming Started in Dagbon <PDF>
12. Drummers and Other Musicians of Dagbon <PDF>
13. How We Make Our Drums and Gungons <PDF>
14. How a Drum Is Beaten <PDF>

Part 3: MUSIC AND DANCING IN COMMUNITY EVENTS
15. Proverbs and Praise-Names <PDF>
16. The Praise-Name Dances and the Benefits of Music <PDF>
17. How a Person Should Dance <PDF>
18. Baamaaya, Jera, Yori, Bila, and Other Dances of Dagbon <PDF>
19. Takai and Tora <PDF>
20. Funerals <PDF>
21. Muslims' Funerals and Chiefs' Funerals <PDF>

Part 4: LEARNING AND MATURITY
22. How Children are Trained in Drumming and Singing <PDF>
23. Traveling and Learning the Dances of Other Tribes <PDF>
24. Drum Chieftaincies <PDF>
25. How Drummers Share Money <PDF>

Volume II: OLD TALKS: DRUMMERS, CHIEFS, HISTORY, AND RELIGION

Part 1: CHIEFTAINCY
1. The Forbidden Talks of Drumming <PDF>
2. How Drummers Search for Old Talks <PDF>
3. The Origins of Dagbon before Naa Gbewaa <PDF>
4. Naa Shitɔbu and Naa Nyaɣsi: The Founding of Dagbon <PDF>
5. The Yaa-Naa and the Yendi Elders <PDF>
6. Chieftaincy in Dagbon <PDF>
7. How Princes Get Chieftaincy <PDF>
8. How Chiefs Judge Cases <PDF>

Part 2: HISTORY
9. Samban' luŋa: The Drum History <PDF>
10. The First Gonja War: Naa Dariʒɛɣu and Naa Luro <TPDF>
11. The Chieftaincy of Naa Zanjina, the Light of Dagbon <PDF>
12. The Second Gonja War: Naa Zanjina and Naa Siɣli <PDF>
13. The Cola and Slave Trades: Naa Garba and the Ashantis <PDF>
14. The Pre-colonial and Colonial Periods <PDF>
15. Modern History and the Chieftaincy Crisis <PDF>

Part 3: FESTIVALS IN COMMUNITY LIFE AND THE WORK OF DRUMMERS
16. The Fire Festival <PDF>
17. The Damba Festival <PDF>
18. The Guinea Fowl, Ramadan, and Chimsi Festivals <PDF>

Part 4: RELIGION AND MEDICINE
19. The Dagbamba Belief in God <PDF>
20. The Muslim Religion in Dagbon <PDF>
21. The Pilgrimage to Mecca <PDF>
22. Soothsayers and Diviners <PDF>
23. The Priests of the Land <PDF>
24. Gods and Shrines <PDF>
25. Medicine <PDF>
26. Drummers' Medicines <PDF>
27. Diseases and Medicine <PDF>
28. Madness <PDF>

Volume III: IN OUR LIVING

Part 1: ECONOMIC LIFE
1. Farming in Dagbon <PDF>
2. How Dagbamba Sow Their Yam Farms <PDF>
3. The Work of Guinea Corn <PDF>
4. Rice Farming <PDF>
5. Groundnuts, Shea Butter, Kpalgu, and Animals <PDF>
6. Markets in Dagbon <PDF>
7. Modern Work and Agricultural Development <PDF>

Part 2: FAMILY
8. Family and Lineage <PDF>
9. How a Family Separates <PDF>
10. What Has Strength in Dagbamba Families <PDF>

Part 3: CHILDREN
11. The Benefits of Children <TPDF>
12. How a Child is Given Birth <PDF>
13. Special Problems of Children <PDF>
14. How Children Live When They Are Young <PDF>
15. How Girls Grow Up in the Villages <PDF>
16. How Boys Grow Up in the Villages <PDF>

Part 4: HOUSEHOLDING
17. How Dagbamba Marry <PDF>
18. The Life of Bachelors <PDF>
19. Why Dagbamba Marry Many Wives <PDF>
20. How Dagbamba Feed Their Families <PDF>
21. How a Husband and Wife Love One Another <PDF>
22. The Work Women Do in a House and How They Help One Another <PDF>
23. Sex and Rivalry in a House <PDF>
24. How a Husband and Wife Separate <PDF>

Part 5: OLD AGE
25. Widows <PDF>
26. The Life of Old People <PDF>

Part 6: CONCLUSION
27. Alhaji Ibrahim's Reflections on the Work <PDF>

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Direct links to supporting materials
PHOTOGRAPHS and IMAGE GALLERIES
AUDIO RECORDINGS of selected drumming and music to accompany the text
FIGURES, GENEALOGICAL CHARTS, and TABLES as readers' aids for managing information
CHAPTER OUTLINES by paragraph with LINKS to chapter sections
Maps
Map 1: Ghana 1977 <PDF > <JPG>
Map 2: Northern Ghana 1977 <PDF > <JPG>
Map 3: Dagbon 1977 <PDF > <JPG>
Currency note <PDF>
Project status and chapter update history
Current PDF file upload dates
Uploads and revisions history

Other supplementary excerpts are within the chapter portals
PROVERBS and SAYINGS excerpted from chapter texts
CHAPTER WORD LISTS of Dagbani words and other search terms in ASCII and phonetic characters

Chapter portals also provide links to supporting materials
CHAPTER OUTLINES by paragraph with LINKS to chapter sections
FIGURES, GENEALOGICAL CHARTS, and TABLES as readers' aids for data-intensive chapters
PHOTOGRAPHS and IMAGE GALLERIES
AUDIO RECORDINGS of selected drumming and music to accompany the text