Book
Girls' nubility rites in Ashanti
Ghana Pub. Corp. • Tema, Ghana • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Sarpong, Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed description and interpretation of Ashanti nubility rites based on questionnaires, tape recordings, and the personal experience of the author, who grew up in an Ashanti village. Ashanti nubility rites mark a woman's availability for marriage and the matrilineage's future hope. Boys are not as valued as girls in this respect and do not have any equivalent initiation rites. The rite is carried out for a single girl between the ages of 13 and 20. In the symbolism of the rite the girl is treated as the queen mother. She is ‘enstooled,’ kept secluded, and pampered. Other parts of the ceremony involve singing, dancing, sacrifices, ritual hair cutting, and ritual bathing. A separate KYIRIBRA ceremony is held for girls who violated their chastity prior to the nubility rite.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Visiting and hospitality
- Puberty and initiation
- 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.
- Cleric
- 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
- 1920-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ashanti; Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter Sarpong
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78106960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)