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Symbols of identity: Akan art in the popular culture of Ghana and its educational implications.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Symbols of identity: Akan art in the popular culture of Ghana and its educational implications./
Author:	Ross, Mariama.
Description:	293 p.
Notes:	Chair: Enid Zimmerman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-02A.
Subject:	Education, Art. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3005408
ISBN:	9780493146911

Symbols of identity: Akan art in the popular culture of Ghana and its educational implications.
Ross, Mariama.

Symbols of identity: Akan art in the popular culture of Ghana and its educational implications. - 293 p.

Chair: Enid Zimmerman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2000.

This study looked at how indigenous culture influences and impacts contemporary arts, popular culture, and education within its native setting, and how knowledge of context can inform multicultural art education outside the setting. From fields of semiotics and anthropology, I formulated an approach using symbols as a language and I examined current applications of traditional culture in Ghana. Using the focus of traditional Akan Adinkra and kente symbols, I examined the motives of artists whose work includes these symbols, and their function in clothing, media, and advertising in contemporary Ghana. Additionally, I investigated how Ghana's school system teaches indigenous art forms. Research methodologies used in this study were drawn from ethnographic, qualitative inquiry methods. Data was collected through unstructured interviews with artists, art educators, consumers of popular culture, participant observations in schools and community events. Review of media and documents related to arts in schools and community life, including curricular materials, publications about Ghanaian culture, newspapers, television, and radio also were used. Interpretations were made from a content analysis.

ISBN: 9780493146911Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018432
Education, Art.

Symbols of identity: Akan art in the popular culture of Ghana and its educational implications.
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