Research Catalog

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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Details

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