Publication Information The main body of the Publication Information page contains all the metadata that HRAF holds for that document.
Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Fortes, Meyer
Title:
Kinship and marriage among the Ashanti
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
African systems of kinship and marriage, edited by A. R.
Radcliffe-Brown and D. Forde
Published By: Original publisher
African systems of kinship and marriage, edited by A. R.
Radcliffe-Brown and D. Forde
London: Oxford University Press for the International
African Institute. 1950. 252-284 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
by Meyer Fortes
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2000. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Akan (FE12)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Marriage (580);
Kinship (600);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Fortes discusses what he considers to be
the crucial problem for Ashanti men: the conflict between the requirements of marriage and
fatherhood on the one hand and a man's obligation to his matrilineal kin on the other.
Manifestations of this conflict as they appear in specific kin-groupings (husband and wife,
parent and child, brother and sister, uncle and nephew, etc.) are analyzed within the
broader contexts of the sib, lineage and extended family. Marriage customs and divorce are
also discussed.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
5
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fe12-005
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
No date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Mary L. Bartlett ; 1954
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ashanti; Ghana
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Akan (African peoples)
