Jamaican stories of the Spider God Anansi is both a god, spirit and African folktale character.
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Read more about Beckwith in the Post Scriptum of Anansi.
Anansi, Jamaican stories of the Spider God, therefore present these stories in their original Jamaican-English version.
While other scholars also drew a firm line between folk and other higher forms of artistic expression, Beckwith believed both belonged in the literary tradition.
While many early folklorists believed that the term folk only referred to the oral culture of savages, Beckwith maintained that all cultures had folk traditions that warranted investigation.
This book is the revised edition of Jamaica Anansi stories by the American folklorist Martha Warren Beckwith.
The Jamaican versions of these stories are the most well preserved, because Jamaica had the largest concentration of Asante as slaves in the Americas, and their most complete compilation is found in Anansi, Jamaican stories of the Spider God.
On Cura ao, Aruba, and Bonaire he is known as Nanzi, and his wife as Shi Maria.
They later spread to other Akan groups and then to the West Indies, Suriname, Sierra Leone (where they were introduced by Jamaican Maroons) and the Netherlands Antilles.
The word Ananse is Akan and means spider.
The Anansi tales originated from the Ashanti people of present-day Ghana.
He is also one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.
He often takes the shape of a Spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories.
Jamaican stories of the Spider God Anansi is both a god, spirit and African folktale character
