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The population of Ashanti: a geographical analysis
Geographical journal • 111-112 • Published In 1948 • Pages: 64-77
By: Steel, R. W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an analysis of demographic trends in Ashanti during the first half of the twentieth century. Population distribution and density, settlement patterns, and land use are discussed, and maps and charts illustrating the textual data are provided. Steel lists the main reasons advanced for the increase in Ashanti population in the 1940s, and cites the influence of the cocoa and gold mining industries, immigration and internal migration, and highway construction on population trends and urban development in Ashanti. The author, a lecturer in colonial geography at Oxford University, travelled in Ashanti during 1945-46 as a member of the Ashanti Social Survey (see document no. 7 for additional information on the nature of this Survey and geographical data contributed by Steel).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akan
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- Physical Scientist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Mary L. Bartlett ; 1953
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ashanti; Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by R. W. Steel
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African peoples)