TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyer Fortes
AU  - Meyer Fortes
TI  - The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi: : the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
T2  - African Ethnographic studies of the 20th Century
SN  - 9781138591882
U1  - 362 FOR 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Abingdon,Oxen
PB  - :Routledge Publishers
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social problems of & services to groups of people
N2  - Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages, religious values are examined as indices of social relations. Although not a comparative study, it is clear that many features of Tale social organization are typical of patrilineal societies in West Africa and some Tale institutions have parallels in South, East, and Central Africa. Field work showed that every significant social activity among the Tallensi is tied up with the lineage system and the book therefore investigates the function of lineage in Tale social organization
ER  -