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Some new shrines of the Gold Coast and their significance
Africa • 13 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 138-149
By: Field, M. J. (Margaret Joyce).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
After briefly summarizing the early social organization of the Gold Coast, this article discusses the confederations of 'states,' their change and development. With this as a background, the recent preoccupation with witchcraft is analyzed on the basis of the author's premise that the cocoa industry and the prevalance of veneral disease are its primary causes. Shrines - their origin, significance, and associated practices - the localized attributes of deities, and a short description of religious festivals constitute the article's main examination.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sorcery
- Sacred objects and places
- 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.
- 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
- Cory Berman ; 1954
- 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)
- Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by M. J. Field
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African peoples)