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The Fanti family system
Journal of the African Society • 7 • Published In 1908 • Pages: 394-409
By: Ffoulkes, Arthur.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Fanti family and kin groupings and relationships are analyzed by Arthur Ffoulkes, formerly British District Commissioner of the Gold Coast Colony. Ffoulkes' classification of kin groupings is at variance with the system used by HRAF, and it should be pointed out that his term ‘sept’ corresponds to the sib (category 614), while his use of the general term ‘family’ is applicable to both the extended family (category 596) and the lineage (category 613). The several types of slavery prevalent among the Fanti are discussed and data are also provided on the geographical distribution and the various totems of the seven principal Gold Coast sibs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Family
- Kinship
- Kin groups
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fanti; Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Arthur Ffoulkes
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African peoples)