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Double descent among the FantiBook 1954 • Christensen, James Boyd
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This doctoral thesis, presented to Northwestern University in 1952, is based on field work carried out during a period of eleven months in the Fanti states of Anomabu, Abura and Esiam. Christensen's intention was to show that the Fanti social system ...Utaniarticle 1963 • Christensen, James Boyd
Luguru • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study discusses the meaning and role of a joking relationship among a category of persons belonging to exogamous Luguru clans. Locally referred to as “utani,” two persons who stand as “joking relatives” vis-à-vis each other are by custom permitt...