Religion, Morality and the Person
Essays on Tallensi Religion

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

Meyer Fortes (Author)

9780521336932, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 15 October 1987

364 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.46 kg

Meyer Fortes (1906–1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many years worked among the Tallensi of northern Ghana. Although he published seminally important monographs on Tallensi family and kinship and on political organization, his work on their religion has hitherto remained confined to disparate journals and edited volumes. This collection brings together in one place his major writings on religion.

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.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]