Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Tallensi (African people)
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Kinship
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Tallensi (African people)--Religion
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Talensi
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Talensi
Abstract:
Documents in the Tallensi Collection, all of them in English, cover cultural, economic and environmental information circa 1930 to 1994. Most are by Meyer Fortes, a leading British social anthropologist who conducted extensive fieldwork among the Tallensi in 1934-1937 and 1971. Fortes's works provide detailed first hand description and analysis of Tallensi society with particular emphasis on clans and lineages, kinship and social relations, and religious practices including divination, ancestor worship and moral life. Other documents in the collection compliment Fortes's seminal works by examining other themes relating to Tallensi culture and society including food culture, communal fishing, naming custom, the judicial process, ritual festivals, education and socialization, land tenure and settlement patterns. Most of the information in these documents was collected from a locality called Tongo which Fortes described as the biggest settlement in Tallensi land
Note:
Culture Summary: Tallensi - Teferi Abate Adem - 2010 -- - The dynamics of clanship among the Tallensi: being the first part of an analysis of the social structure of a Trans-Volta tribe - Meyer Fortes - 1945 -- - The web of kinship among the Tallensi: the second part of an analysis of the social structure of a Trans-Volta tribe - Meyer Fortes - 1949 -- - Food in the domestic economy of the Tallensi - M. and S. L. Fortes - 1936 -- - Social and psychological aspects of education in Taleland - Meyer Fortes - 1938 -- - Communal fishing and fishing magic in the northern territories of the Gold Coast - Meyer Fortes - 1937 -- - Ritual festivals and social cohesion in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast - Meyer Fortes - 1936 -- - Names among the Tallensi of the Gold Coast - Meyer Fortes - 1955 --
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- Religion, morality, and the person: essays on Tallensi religion - Meyer Fortes ; edited and with an introduction by Jack Goody - 1987 -- - Towards the judicial process: a Tallensi case - Meyer Fortes - 1987 -- - The land is ours: research on the land-use system among the Tallensi in northern Ghana - Volker Riehl - 1990 -- - Lineage organisation of the Tallensi compound: the social logic of domestic space - Nick Gabrilopoulos, Charles Mather and Caesar Roland Apentiik - 2002
