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)
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1994
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| In: |
Africa
Year: 1994, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 307-322 |
| Further subjects: | B
Socioeconomic change
B Manners and customs B People B Akan B Cult of the dead B Custom B Tree trunk Ethnology B Nature religion |
| 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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| Physical Description: | Lit. S. 321, Lit.Hinw. S. 319-321 |
| ISSN: | 0001-9720 |
| Contains: | In: Africa
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