book chapter
Religion and art in Ashanti
Clarendon Press • Oxford, England • Published In 1927 • Pages:
By: Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This volume, the second of Captain Rattray's three ethnographic studies of the Ashanti, completes the general survey of religious beliefs begun in ‘Ashant’. Detailed data are presented on the form and importance of ancestor worship, spirits and gods, fetishes, oaths, and taboos in Ashanti religious beliefs and practices; arts and crafts surveyed, ceremonial rites are described, and various rites of passage, including customs related to birth, puberty, marriage, and death, are discussed and analyzed. The chapter on cross-cousion marriages amplifies the material on this subject presented by Rattray and L.H. Dudley Buxton in an article previously published (see document #13). In addition to Rattray's data, this volume contains contributions from a number of authorities as follows: C.G. Seligman, Dreams and Dream Interpretation, pp. 197-204; L.H. Dudley Buxton, The Biological Significance of Cross-Cousin Marriages in Ashanti, pp. 332-343; Vernon Blake, The Aesthetic of Ashanti, pp. 344-381; G.T. Bennett, Wari, pp. 382-390; R.R. Marett, Some General Aspects of the Ashanti Religion, pp. 391-398.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Art
- Religious beliefs
- Religious practices
- Ecclesiastical organization
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Mary L. Bartlett ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1921-192?
- 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)
- Ashanti; Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Capt. R. S. Rattray, M.B.E., B.Sc. (Oxon.)
- The index is not included
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)