- PII
- S0321-50750000616-3-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S50000616-3-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue №6
- Pages
- 61-64
- Abstract
- Avatime is a small people (about 24 thousand) living in the south-east of Ghana. The author’s first expedition to areas inhabited avatime took place in 2011 and lasted three months. Ethnographic material was collected, interviews with representatives of different social strata avatime were conducted, students of primary and secondary schools in one of the villages were questioned. The second expedition in 2012-2013 also lasted for 3 months. There were meetings with the elders and chiefs of villages and collected material which allowed us fix in writing form an oral history of the people.
- Keywords
- Ghana, avatime, syncretism, Christianity, rituals
- Date of publication
- 01.06.2015
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 1148
RAS History & PhilologyAsia and Africa Today
- ISSN (Print) 0321-5075
- ISSN (Online)2782-2389
AVATIME PEOPLE: TRADITIONAL RITUALS AND CHRISTIANITY
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