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Fanti marriage customs
Journal of the African Society • VIII • Published In 1909 • Pages: 31-48
By: Ffoulkes, Arthur.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article by the former District Commissioner of the Gold Coast Colony deals with various aspects of Fanti marriage customs. Regulation of marriage, marriage arrangements and negotiations, concept and payment of dowery or bride price, and modes of marriage prevalent among various Fanti groups are analyzed. Ffoulkes also provides information on adulterous and pre-maritial sexual relationships, concubinage, methods of terminating marriage, secondary marriages, and the status of children of irregular and/or terminated unions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- 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)