book chapter
The Akan of Ghana: an overview of the ethnographic literature
Pointer Ltd. • Accra • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Warren, Dennis M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book contains an overview of the information on the Akan of Ghana written primarily in the twentieth century. In this work, Warren has distilled and condensed data pertinent to the Akan/Ashanti and presents it here in a concise form. Topics covered in this study deal with life cycle events (birth, puberty, marriage, and death), religion, family and social structure, government and law, and the arts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Districts
- Advisers to the chief executive
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Priesthood
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- unknown
- 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 Dennis M. Warren
- First published: Accra: Pointer Ltd., 1973
- None of the images in this monograph were included in this publication
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-80) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87128386
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)