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Cross-cousin marriages
Journal of the African Society • 24 (94) • Published In 1925 • Pages: 83-91
By: Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland), Dudley Buxton, L. H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Marriage customs and rules are analyzed in an attempt to answer the question...'why should a man (in the past at any rate) have been compelled to marry his mother's brother's daughter and/or his father's sister's darghter.' The tentative conclusion reached by the authors is that the solution lay in the importance of reincarnation into the same abusua (matrilineal exogamous division) and the same ntoro (patrilineal exogamous division) of which they were members on earth; a condition which could be achieved in the most satisfactory way by the marriage of cross-cousins. See Chapters XXIX and XXX in Rattray (1927) for modifications of these theories on the basis of further research by Rattray and Dudley Buxton.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akan
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- not specified
- 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. S. Rattray and L. H. Dudley Buxton
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Twi (African peoples)