essay
Kinship and cocoa farming in Ghana
Female and male in West Africa • London • Published In 1983 • Pages: 169-178
By: Okali, Christine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Okali finds that matrilineal kinship ideology and practice continue to play a significant role in the establishment of new cocoa farms by migrant families. It is argued that kinship would play less of a role, and contractual relationships more of one, in the productive relations of the frontier. However, Okali argues that family and lineage members continue to help each other out--making the whole project feasible in the first place--and maintain the customary exchanges between spouses, parents and children, and among lineage members. However exchanges and inheritance are more circumscribed on the frontier: limited to the family and lineage members who actually worked to help open and support the farm.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Special crops
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Household
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Technical Personnel
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ashanti; Akokoaso and Dominase, Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christine Okali
- For bibliographical references see document 56: Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82020767
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)