[ePub] Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture (Encounters with Ancient Egypt) by From Routledge at Arts-Photography

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The Ghanaian trickster-spider; Ananse; is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class; politics; and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana; revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy; neither ideology was completely successful; but Donkor shows how the Ghanaian government was crafty in selling the ideas to the people; adapting trickster-rooted performance techniques to reinterpret citizenship and the common good. Trickster performers rebelled against this takeover of their art and sought new ways to out trick the tricksters.