Book
The dynamics of Fanti domestic organisation: a comparison with Fortes'; Ahanti survey
Institute of Social Studies • (20) • Published In 1972 • Pages: 32
By: Vercruijsse, Emile V. W., Fortes, Meyer, Time and social structure: an Ashanti case study.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Vercruijsse examines the impact of market penetration on Fanti domestic organization in six Central Region villages. He measured and compared the degree of marketing, wage employment, monetization, and education for all six villages. He also looks at household composition and compares it to the data from Fortes' 1945 Ashanti study. He concludes that it is both market penetration and changing economic opportunities that weaken lineage ties.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Age stratification
- Household
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- 1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fanti; central region, Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emile V. W. Vercruijsse
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74189730
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)