The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi: The Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe

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Author: Fortes, Meyer (1906-1983) from the library of Professor George M Foster Year: 1957 Publisher: Oxford University Pres for the International African Institute Place: London and New York Description: xiv+358 pages with plates, figures and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. From the library of professor George M Foster . Second edition. The Tallensi are a tribe of the Frafra people of northern Ghana, numbering a few tens of thousands. They speak Talni , a dialect of the Frafra language, and maintain an agricultural mode of subsistence. The Tallensi homeland is covered by the Tallensi Traditional Area, and consists mainly of open savanna. Meyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyzes of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard for studies on African social organization. His famous book, Oedipus and Job in West African Religion (1959), fused his two interests and set a standard for comparative ethnology. He also wrote extensively on issues of the first born, kingship, and divination. Fortes received his anthropological training from Charles Gabriel Seligman at the London School of Economics. Fortes also trained with Bronislaw Malinowski and Raymond Firth. Along with contemporaries A.

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