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The Fanti family systemarticle 1908 • Ffoulkes, Arthur
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
Fanti family and kin groupings and relationships are analyzed by Arthur Ffoulkes, formerly British District Commissioner of the Gold Coast Colony. Ffoulkes' classification of kin groupings is at variance with the system used by HRAF, and it should be...Fanti marriage customsarticle 1909 • Ffoulkes, Arthur
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This article by the former District Commissioner of the Gold Coast Colony deals with various aspects of Fanti marriage customs. Regulation of marriage, marriage arrangements and negotiations, concept and payment of dowery or bride price, and modes of...