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The Fanti Asafu
Africa • 5 • Published In 1932 • Pages: 307-322
By: Johnson, J. C. de Graft.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a brief account of the composition and activities of the warrior organization of the Cape Coast Fanti. Included are a summary of its history, a description of the divisions and their officers, their ceremonies, and their part in wars and riots.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Military organization
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
- 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 J. C. de Graft Johnson
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African peoples)