Box MS Add.9359/10/30, 11/1-35: Box 13
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Series
Marriage, cross-cousin marriage; interchange of meals at Agogo, kinship and family relationships
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9359/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers relating mainly to Fortes's research and social survey in Ashanti [now a region of southern Ghana], 1945-46. This includes field data, blank questionnaires, completed questionnaires, background research in preparation for the survey and papers relating to the reports and articles produced as a result. Additional material includes a collection of offprints loosely on the subject of West African history and anthropology, mostly Nigeria and Ghana, and papers relating to the establishment...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Justice
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9359/11
Scope and Contents
Customs in courts, proceedings from cases, witchcraft ordeals, Gold Coast shrines, and fetishes; Ashanti Confederacy Council, treasury, revenue and debt, land disputes, and succession law; and gold weights and miners
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).