Territorial Mobility and the Mamprusi Kingship

In December of 1965 I had recently returned from two years of fieldwork in northern Ghana. My supervisor, Prof. Meyer Fortes, invited me to accompany him and his wife Doris to a conference in the village of Sonchamp, outside Paris. There we were welcomed with wonderful hospitality by Germaine Diete...

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Auteur principal: Drucker-Brown, Dr Susan
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Langue:Français
Publié: Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire 2020
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:In December of 1965 I had recently returned from two years of fieldwork in northern Ghana. My supervisor, Prof. Meyer Fortes, invited me to accompany him and his wife Doris to a conference in the village of Sonchamp, outside Paris. There we were welcomed with wonderful hospitality by Germaine Dieterlen at her home. The three-day Sonchamp meeting was my first introduction to French anthropologists and it was a truly momentous occasion. As I remember it, the grown-ups, (ie. the more senior par...