Akan : FE12.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 1999-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafWorldCultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=FE12
Subjects
Akan (African people)
Ethnology--Ghana.
Ghana--Civilization.

Other author/creatorAbu, Katharine.
Other author/creatorAllman, Jean Marie.
Other author/creatorArhin, Kwame.
Other author/creatorAustin, Gareth.
Other author/creatorBusia, K. A. (Kofi Abrefa)
Other author/creatorClark, Gracia.
Other author/creatorDanquah, J. B. (Joseph Boakye)
Other author/creatorDebrunner, Hans Werner.
Other author/creatorFfoulkes, Arthur.
Other author/creatorField, M. J. (Margaret Joyce)
Other author/creatorFortes, Meyer.
Other author/creatorHayford, J. E. Casely (Joseph Ephraim Casely), 1866-1930.
Other author/creatorDe Graft Johnson, J. C.
Other author/creatorKronenfeld, David B., 1941-
Other author/creatorMcCaskie, T. C.
Other author/creatorMcLeod, M. D. (Malcolm D.)
Other author/creatorMensa-Bonsu, Henrietta J. A. N.
Other author/creatorMeyerowitz, Eva L. R. (Eva Lewin Richter), 1899-1994.
Other author/creatorNketia, J. H. Kwabena.
Other author/creatorOkali, C.
Other author/creatorRattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland), 1881-1938.
Other author/creatorRoss, Doran H.
Other author/creatorSarbah, John Mensah, 1864-1910.
Other author/creatorSarpong, Peter.
Other author/creatorTaye Assefa.
Other author/creatorVellenga, Dorothy Dee, 1937-
Other author/creatorVercruijsse, Emile V. W.
Other author/creatorWarren, Dennis M.
Other author/creatorWilks, Ivor.
Other author/creatorYankah, Kwesi.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures. Africa
EHRAF world cultures. Africa. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Separateness of spouses / Katharine Abu -- The youngmen and the porcupine / Jean Marie Allman -- Bibliography / Anonymous -- Asante praise poems ; Peasants in 19th-century Asante ; Political and military roles of Akan women / Kwame Arhin -- No elders present / Gareth Austin -- The position of the chief in the modern political system of the Ashanti / K.A. Busia -- Separation between trading and home for Asante women in Kumasi Central Market, Ghana ; Onions are my husband / Gracia Clark -- Gold Coast ; The Gold Coast Akan / J.B. Danquah -- Witchcraft in Ghana / Hans W. Debrunner -- Fanti marriage customs ; The Fanti family system / Arthur Ffoulkes -- Some new shrines of the Gold Coast and their significance ; Search for security / M.J. Field -- Ashanti survey, 1945-46 ; Kinship and marriage among the Ashanti / Meyer Fortes -- Cultural summary: Akan / Michelle Gilbert, Robert O. Lagacé, and Ian Skoggard -- Gold Coast native institutions with thoughts upon a healthy imperial policy for the Gold Coast Ashanti / J.E. Casley Hayford -- The Fanti Asafu / J.C. de Graft Johnson -- Fanti kinship / David B. Kronenfeld -- Accumulation, wealth and belief in Asante history I / T.C. McCaskie -- The Asante / M.D. McLeod -- Place of oaths in the constitutional set-up of Asante / Henrietta J. Mensa-Bonsu -- The early history of the Akan states of Ghana / Eva L.R. Meyerowitz -- Funeral dirges of the Akan people / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Kinship and cocoa farming in Ghana / Christine Okali -- Ashanti ; Ashanti law and constitution ; Ashanti proverbs ; Religion and art in Ashanti / R.S. Rattray -- Fighting with art / Doran H. Ross -- Fanti customary laws ; Fanti national constitution / John Mensah Sarbah -- Girls' nubility rites on Ashanti / Peter Sarpong -- The population of Ashanti / R.W. Steel -- Who is a wife? / Dorothy Dee Vellenga -- The dynamics of Fanti domestic organisation / Emile V.W. Vercruijsse -- The Akan of Ghana ; The Techiman-Bobo of Ghana / Dennis M. Warren -- Forests of gold ; On mentally mapping greater Asante / Ivor Wilks -- The proverb in the context of Akan rhetoric / Kwesi Yankah.
Abstract The Akan are Twi-speaking peoples living in southern and central Ghana and in southeastern Côte d'Ivoire. This file includes 45 documents. Most are on the two major Akan groups, the Ashanti and Fanti; others refer to two or more Akan groups.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Feb. 27, 2008).
General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 1999 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Twi.
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