essay
Names among the Tallensi of the Gold Coast
Afrikanistische Studien, herausgegeben von J. Lukas • Berlin • Published In 1955 • Pages: 337-349
By: Fortes, Meyer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article gives a description of names and name-giving among the Tallensi. Each person has a public and a private name, the latter not being secret. The private name refers generally to an ancestor who is the guardian spirit of the owner of the name. The public name can refer to almost any circumstance of interest to the name-giver. The article closes with a brief discussion of names taken at the investiture of chiefs and the ten'daanas. Fortes is Willliam Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal names
- Naming
- Spirits and gods
- Luck and chance
- Sacred objects and places
- Eschatology
- Clans
- Techniques of socialization
- Community heads
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tallensi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1957
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tongo village, Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Meyer Fortes
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56035614
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tallensi (African people)