ISBN:
0-485-19537-2
,
978-0-485-19537-8
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 217 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Monographs on Social Anthropology 37
DDC:
392.309667
Keywords:
Togo Ghana
;
Ethnie, Afrika
;
Anlo
;
Ewe
;
Soziales Leben
;
Recht, traditionelles
;
Heirat
;
Hochzeit
;
Hochzeitsritual
;
Eherecht
;
Ehe
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Verwandtschaftsstruktur
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Dr Nukunya is one of the few Africans who have worked as trained anthropologists among their own people. His book is a study of the Anlo, the most numerous of the Ewe peoples who are divided between Ghana and Togo. Their descent is remarkable in that a patrilineal ideology is balanced by unusually strong matrilineal ties, and descent is traced from genitor whether or not he is the mother's legal husband. Dr Nukunya describes the complex system of landholdings that the high densisty of population make necessary. Adjustments are made by the exercise of claims through maternal kin; his conclusion contradicts the argument that patrilineal claims are asserted more strongly where there is pressure on land. He also discusses the changes in household structure that result from the absence of parents on trading or fishing expeditions or in wage employment.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introductio. Anlo Country: Habitat and Economy. Ethnic Composition of the Anlo Kingdom. The Political System. The Literature on the Ewe and the Anlo. Field Work and Methodology -- The kinship system. The Clan. The Lineage. The basic behaviour patterns among agnates. Non-agnatic kinship. The basic behaviour patterns in matrilateral kinship. The Language of Kinship -- Marriage. Marriage Prohibitions. Incest and Adultery. Preferential Marriages. Selection of partners and relations between the sexes before marriage. Courting. The marriage ceremonies. Marriage and filiation of children. Second marriages, irregular unions and paternity. Divorce. Social structure, marriage payment and divorce -- The familiy. The Household in its physical setting. The Composition of the household group. The Individual's stages of development. Interpersonal relations within the family -- The effects of social changes on kinship, marriage and the family. Kin groups and social change. Marriage and the family in the changing conditions -- Appendices -- List of works cited -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 209 - 211; "This work, apart from minor corrections, was approved as a thesis for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Faculty of Art (Anthropology), University of London." (Preface)
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