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Fanti kinshiparticle 1991 • Kronenfeld, David B.
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This is a sophisticated study of the relationship between inheritance and kinship terminology among the Fanti of Ghana's southern coast. Kronenfeld shows how the adoption of English kin terms coincides with changing property relations and inheritance...