The Tshi-speaking peoples of the gold Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, languages, etc. / by A.B. Ellis, Major, 1st West India Regiment.
Publication details: London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1887.Description: vii, 343 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- Twi (African people) -- Social life and customs -- History
- Twi (African people) -- Religious life and customs -- History
- Ethnology -- Ghana
- Twi language
- Ghana -- Description and travel -- 19th century
- Ethnology
- Twi (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Twi language
- Ghana
- Antropologia Cult Social (Africa)
- 966.7 E47t
- DT510.42 .E4 1887
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"Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press"--Title page verso.
Introductory -- Religious beliefs -- General deities -- Srahmantin and Sasabonsum -- Local deities -- Deities worshipped by particular sections of the community (company, market, town, and family tutelary deities) -- The tutelary deities of individuals -- Deductions -- The priesthood -- Psycholatry and human sacrifices -- On fetishism -- Oaths, ordeals, omens, etc. -- Family divisions and animal worship -- Division of and mode of reckoning time -- Religious ceremonies and festivals -- Ceremonies at birth, marriage, and death -- State ceremonies -- System of government -- Laws -- Language -- Music -- Traditions and folk-lore.
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