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A Twi relationship system
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland • 67 • Published In 1937 • Pages: 297-304
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The systems described in this brief article were collected in 1925 from a Twi student at Columbia University. The informant was a native of Apegusu in the Gold Coast. A study of terminology showed that there were two systems in use, a simple classificatory system, and a specialized legalistic terminology in which the principle of generation was partially discarded in order to reflect the laws of inheritance. Mead compares this system with the Ashanti system collected by Rattray. Mead was then Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
- 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.
- 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 ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1925
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Margaret Mead
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95660943
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Twi (African peoples)