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Social life in Fanti-land
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland • XXVI • Published In 1897 • Pages: 128-153
By: Connolly, R. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Connolly's travel account includes a description of tribal life among the Fanti tribes, their physical characteristics, language, personal and place names, marriage rites and burial customs, poetry and folklore, family relations and tenure, beliefs and superstitions, totems and fetishes, magic and charms, crop production and food habits.
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Angelica Baumann ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1895
- 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 R. M. Connolly
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Twi (African peoples)