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...

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...

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...

Tongnaab (literally "Chief of the Earth") is a deity associated with the Tallensi people of northern Ghana. Tongnaab is particularly believed to have powers...

Dan, the Logoli, the Gagu and Kru peoples, the Mano, Bassa Grebo and Kwanko (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Togo), the Tallensi, Mamprusi, Kusaasi (Ghana), the Nuer...

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...

a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed...

through rituals of avoidance. This was most extreme among the Tallensi. Among East Asian peoples, on the other hand, co-residence between parents and their...

both. The Yanomami fit very well into the alliance theory mold, while the Tallensi or Azande do not. Holý (1996) pointed out that some Middle-Eastern societies...

scenic tourist sites". Graphic online. 31 March 2023. "Mamprusi people: Ghana's ancient people in the north". ghanaweb.com. GhanaWeb. Retrieved 27 May 2024...

Farefaraelanguage that are spoken among the Frafra people. This includes Gurune, also known as Frafra, Nankani, Booni, Tallensi, and Nabdam. Funeral forms part of the...

cultural diffusion relationships. Murdock began with the twelve hundred or so peoples in his Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock, 1967), dividing them into roughly 200...

the Tallensi unilineal descent turns out to be largely an ideal concept to which the empirical facts are only adapted by means of fictions". People's self-interest...

Meyer (15 October 1987). Religion, Morality and the Person: Essays on Tallensi Religion. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-33693-2. Kim, Choong Soon (2000)...

by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of...

anthropology that ethnographically considered educational forms of the Tallensi and Tikopia people, done by Meyer Fortes and Raymond Firth. However, there was limited...

Anthropologists have pointed out that through culture, people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often...

taboo. The Tallensi, the Akyims, the Kokis, and the Yaakuma, one of many cultures of Ghana, consider dog meat a delicacy. The Mamprusi people generally...

by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of...

and the Neolithic in the British Isles: Some Observations based upon the Tallensi, Northern Ghana". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 16 (2): 223–238. doi:10...