Meyer Fortes

Religion, Morality and the Person

Essays on Tallensi Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meyer Fortes (1906 1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many years worked among the Tallensi of northern Ghana.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780521336932
• ISBN-10: 0521336937
• Artikelnr.: 24764917

Inhaltsangabe

1. Divination: religious premisses and logical techniques
2. Prayer
3. Ritual festivals and the ancestors
4. Ancestor worship in Africa
5. Ritual and office
6. Totem and taboo
7. Coping with destiny
8. Custom and conscience
9. The first born
10. The concept of the person.