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The Tshi-speaking peoples of the gold Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, languages, etc.

Title
The Tshi-speaking peoples of the gold Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, languages, etc. / by A.B. Ellis, Major, 1st West India Regiment.
Author
Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon), 1852-1894.
Publication
London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1887.

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Additional Authors
  • Chapman and Hall, publisher.
  • Charles Dickens and Evans, printer.
Description
vii, 343 pages : map; 24 cm
Subject
  • Twi (African people) > Social life and customs > History
  • Twi (African people) > Religious life and customs > History
  • Ethnology > Ghana
  • Twi language
  • Ethnology
  • Twi (African people) > Social life and customs
  • Twi language
  • Antropologia Cult Social (Africa)
  • Ethnology > Ghana
  • Akan language
  • Ghana
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Publishers' catalogues – England – London – 1887.
Note
  • "Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press"--Title page verso.
Contents
Introductory -- Religious beliefs -- General deities -- Srahmantin and Sasabonsum -- Local deities -- Deities worshipped by particular sections of the community (company, market, town, and family tutelary deities) -- The tutelary deities of individuals -- Deductions -- The priesthood -- Psycholatry and human sacrifices -- On fetishism -- Oaths, ordeals, omens, etc. -- Family divisions and animal worship -- Division of and mode of reckoning time -- Religious ceremonies and festivals -- Ceremonies at birth, marriage, and death -- State ceremonies -- System of government -- Laws -- Language -- Music -- Traditions and folk-lore.
LCCN
01000574
OCLC
  • ocm04350783
  • 4350783
  • SCSB-8949686
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library