The Konkomba of Northern Ghana
Edited From His Published and Unpublished Writings by Jack Goody
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9366174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Tait (0000-0002-8683-238X), David S Tait (0000-0002-1121-7702, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Konkomba of Northern Ghana (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429486241 |
| OpenAlex | W1524076136 |
| Open Library | OL35826423M |
| ISBN | 9780429486241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
Originally published in 1964 this book made available for the first time David Tait's writings on the Konkomba with whom he lived and worked for 5 years. Including some previously unpublished material, this volume discusses the political system of the Konkomba but includes aspects of social and religious life
Geography · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Discrimination & Race Relations · Ghana · Konkomba (african people) · Konkomba (Peuple d'Afrique) · Minority Studies · politics and government · Social conditions · Social Science
The manipulation of tradition
Gods and Morality in Nzema Polytheism
The Consequences of Literacy
The future of peace in Africa
Girls’ Education, Social Constraints and State Policies in Northern Ghana, 1909–1960
Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)
Imagined martial communities
Aspects of African Traditional Religion
Reorganising Social Welfare Among Muslims
The cultural grounding of personal relationship
The Cultural Grounding of Personal Relationship
Markets in Africa
The Illusion of Tribe1
Political Systems and Economic Performance in Some African Societies
Beyond Gender Roles? Conceptualizing the Social and Economic Lives of Rural Peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa
Catholicism and Problem-solving in Dagbon
The cultural grounding of personal relationship
Symbolic Dualism and Historical Process Among the Kabre of Togo
Ghana
Legal Pluralism as a Source of Conflict in Multi-Ethnic Societies
On the Inadequacy of the Concept of the ‘Traditional State’
The Periodic Market System in Northeastern Ghana
Questioning the concept of the state in Indigenous Africa1
Soldiers, Ex-Servicemen, and Politics in the Gold Coast, 1939-50
Notions and treatment of guinea worm in Northern Ghana
The Islamic dialogue with African traditional religion
I Like You, I Like Your Pottery
The politics of ethnicity and post-conflict reconstruction
Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system
African bridewealth and women's status
Electoral Consequences of Colonial Invention
Causative construction in Likpakpaanl (Konkomba)
Of Persons and Things
The Circulation of Women and Children in Northern Ghana
Cross-Cousin Marriage in Northern Ghana
A Note from Ghana on Chains of Change in Family Systems and Family Size
A Dagara Rebellion against Dagomba Rule? Contested Stories of Origin in North-Western Ghana
Reassessing Barbara Pym
Periodic market-places and periodic marketing
The Past and Present in Ghana's Ethnic Conflicts
Archeological Implications of Traditional House Construction Among the Nchumuru of Northern Ghana [and Comments and Reply]
The Absence of the Missionary in African Ethnography, 1930-65
Normative', 'Recollected' and 'Actual' Marriage Payments among the Lowiili of Northern Ghana, 1951-1966
Barma bridewealth
Bosumpra revisited
From Kinship to Common Descent
Material Culture and Indigenous Spiritism
Ouvrir la bouche de l'ancêtre ». Le processus d'ancestralisation à travers quelques séquences des rites funéraires chez les Bassar du Nord-Togo
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 1963 - 2025 (63) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |