Meyer Fortes (1906-1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many years worked among the Tallensi of northern Ghana. Although he published seminally important monographs on Tallensi family and kinship and on political organization, his work on their religion has hitherto remained confined to disparate journals and edited volumes. This collection brings together in one place his major writings on religion.
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Meyer Fortes (1906-1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many years worked among the Tallensi of northern Ghana. Although he published seminally important monographs on Tallensi family and kinship and on political organization, his work on their religion has hitherto remained confined to disparate journals and edited volumes.
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divining ancestors, totemistic observances, other mystical agencies, late millet, ritual collaboration, early millet, jural status, earth shrines, jural authority, mystical potency, divination session, natal lineage, occult agencies, filial dependence, marriage witness, ancestor cult Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hill Talis, Van Gennep, Chief of Tongo, Emanuel Miller, Yin Yoo, External Boghar, Savage Society, Hill Tallis, Great Festivals, West Africa, Ernest Jones, Tallensi of Northern Ghana, New Guinea, Gbizug Tendaana, Every Tallensi, Baari Tendaana, Guinea Corn Browse Sample Pages:
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divining ancestors, totemistic observances, other mystical agencies, late millet, ritual collaboration, early millet, jural status, earth shrines, jural authority, mystical potency, divination session, natal lineage, occult agencies, filial dependence, marriage witness, ancestor cult Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hill Talis, Van Gennep, Chief of Tongo, Emanuel Miller, Yin Yoo, External Boghar, Savage Society, Hill Tallis, Great Festivals, West Africa, Ernest Jones, Tallensi of Northern Ghana, New Guinea, Gbizug Tendaana, Every Tallensi, Baari Tendaana, Guinea Corn Browse Sample Pages:
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- Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies by Bruce M. Knauft on page 101, and page 102
- The Environment and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Michael S. Northcott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry (African Systems of Thought) by Ivan Karp on page 23
- The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State) by Jack Goody in Back Matter
- Religions in the Modern World Lancaster Bundle: Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations by Linda Woodhead on page 229
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