Tallensi, also spelled Talensi, are a people of northern Ghana who speak a language of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family. They grow millet...
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The Tallensi Traditional Area is a region of northern Ghana, and home to the Tallensi people. It is mainly covered in open savanna. Villages in the area...
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situated to the south-east of Bolgatanga, in the Tallensi Traditional Area. Gbeogo is populated by the Tallensi people, and consists mainly of mud-built dwellings...
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peoples, the Mano, Bassa Grebo and Kwanko (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Togo), the Tallensi, Mamprusi, Kusaasi (Ghana), the Nuer (Southern Sudan), etc. — numbering...
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Kharduri Islam → Sunni Islam Tallensi Atlantic–Congo → Gur → Talni Ghana (Tallensi Traditional Area), Burkina Faso Tallensi religion Talysh Indo-European...
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National Park". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Tenzug - Tallensi settlements". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Navrongo...
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The Second Sex is published. Meyer Fortes' The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi is published. E. Franklin Frazier's The Negro in the United States is published...
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a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed...
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fieldwork, Evans-Pritchard (1940) and Meyer Fortes (1945) argued that the Tallensi and the Nuer were primarily organized around unilineal descent groups....
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by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of...
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