Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization.
This collection brings together in one place his major writings on religion.
Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further.
... Tallensi , whose concepts of self and personhood have been explicated in a masterful essay by Fortes ( 1971 ) on the Tallensi concept of the personne morale . Fortes notes , following Mauss ( 1938 ) , that personhood is socially defined ...
... Tallensi , and this is not what was opera- tional in reality , where a dual - gendered system formed the basis of social organization . Tallensi dual - gendered logic / philosophy If we look through a collection of his essays ( Fortes ...
... Tallensi Religion , ed . Jack Goody ( Cambridge , 1987 ) , vii ; Meyer Fortes , The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi : Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans - Volta Tribe ( London , 1945 ) ; and ...
... Tallensi society . If Worsley's materialism was in part constrained by the theoretical climate , it was on the other hand imposed by the Tallensi themselves . This same resolution of kinship to practical reason represents a logical ...
... Tallensi lineages . function independently of the Mamprusi kingship on which only the Namoo rely for the renovation of naam . This is correlated with the fact that Mamprusi do not regard the Tallensi as people . who ' know how to honor ...
... Tallensi never amassed as such for war with their neighbors - although individual clans and their allies did conflict periodically with neighboring groups . Conflicts did occur between different Tallensi clans , particularly between ...
... Tallensi society . The Tallensi are subsistence farmers who traditionally lacked centralised leadership . They live in what is now northern Ghana . Fortes carried out two years ' fieldwork with the Tallensi between 1934 and 1937. He ...