The Structure of Titled Offices among the Abutia Ewe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2509938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Verdon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-171 |
| Publication date | 1979-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1158672 |
| OpenAlex | W2123692914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Opening ParagraphThe Abutia Ewe form one of what the British colonial administrators dubbed the 'traditional areas', over one hundred of which are said to compose the Ewe people or Eweland. These Ewe traditional areas lie in the southern half of the Volta Region (in Ghana) and in southern Togo. Although much has been written about the Ewe, little is known about the political organisation of the inland areas, north of the coastal savanna. In fact, most authors have treated the Ewe as if they were thoroughly homogeneous and could be analysed as one ethnic group or one society, only acknowledging variations between the north and south, not considered significant enough to make them completely different groups (Spieth 1906; 1911; Westermann 1935; Ward 1949; Manoukian 1952; Nukunya 1969; Friedländer 1962; Asamoa 1971 amongst many others). And yet I contend that the northern areas are as distinct from the southern ones as they are from the Akan populations. As a result, none of the present available literature is particularly useful as a paradigmatic model of the northern areas' political organisation
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Homogeneous · Paragraph · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Ethnography · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · Law
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 1983 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |