Book
The Gold Coast Akan
United Society for Christian Literature • (11) • Published In 1945 • Pages: 62
By: Danquah, J. B. (Joseph Boakye).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an introduction to Akan society and culture, touching on political and social organization, and religious beliefs and rituals. Danquah attempts to situate Akan culture in a broader Sudanese cultural history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociolinguistics
- Rest days and holidays
- Lineages
- Towns
- Chief executive
- Mythology
- Animism
- Spirits and gods
- 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.
- Humanist
- 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
- Not Specified
- 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 J. B. Danquah
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)