... Tallensi, and not Mamprusi. The thing is that in pre colonial times there were no clearly demarcated physical boundaries separating clan settlements, and as a result, some Tallensi clans lived with and associated with neighbouring ...
... Tallensi of Northern Ghana The Tallensi , studied by Meyer Fortes , exemplify the Maussian idea that the personality and the soul are determined by society . It follows , then , that society can confer the label personhood on any ...
... Tallensi ? Marriage , parenthood , filiation , siblingship and other relations of kinship occur in similar arrangements in societies very different from the Tallensi in their modes of produc- tion of food , shelter , and services , in ...
... Tallensi individual . Finally , in this destinal family are the nature deities and the ancestors . They all have determinate power over the individual's prospects for successfully completing the life cycle and achieving ancestorhood ...
... Tallensi , and especially his later papers , on the psychological dimensions of being a parent , descen- dant , elder , and impending ancestor in this society ( Fortes , 1973 , 1974 ) . Here , I was reversing the kind of juxtaposition ...
... Tallensi , personhood is finally validated at the death of the individual . Fortes lays great stress on this element in Tallensi thought . At death , the Tallensi divine to discover the cause of death to reassure themselves that the ...
... Tallensi population was divided between the autochthonous Talis and the immigrant Namoos , who assumed a position of political superiority . Fortes ' most detailed descriptions of a clan structure actually deal with the dominant section ...
... Tallensi children's drawings1 Meyer Fortes The material I am here presenting was collected by my late wife Sonia L. Fortes and myself during our first spell of field work among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana in 1934-7 . At that time ...
... Tallensi people were totally unable to produce such art , at least initially . The children had never been exposed to drawing on two - dimensional surfaces and the concept was entirely new . On March 18 , 1934 , Fortes had about a dozen ...
... 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 ...