The economic implications of transformations in Akan funeral rites
The author describes and analyses the funeral rites of the Akan people with special reference to their persistence and increase in scale. He examines the corresponding increase in expenditure on them and the relationship of the increasing expenditure to today's economy. (DÜI-Sen)
| Published in: | Africa |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1994
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Africa
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| Further subjects: | B
Socioeconomic change
B Manners and customs B People B Akan B Cult of the dead B Custom B Naturreligion B Tree trunk Ethnology |
| Summary: | The author describes and analyses the funeral rites of the Akan people with special reference to their persistence and increase in scale. He examines the corresponding increase in expenditure on them and the relationship of the increasing expenditure to today's economy. (DÜI-Sen) |
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| ISSN: | 0001-9720 |
| Contains: | In: Africa
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