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AVATIME PEOPLE: TRADITIONAL RITUALS AND CHRISTIANITY
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AVATIME PEOPLE: TRADITIONAL RITUALS AND CHRISTIANITY
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S0321-50750000616-3-1
Publication type
Article
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Published
Authors
Alina O. Lapushkina 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9476-9288
Edition
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
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