Meyer Fortes

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Meyer Fortes

Anthropology

#875

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#1187

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Social Anthropology

#34

World Rank

#44

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The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi (2018) (387)
The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups (1953) (334)
The Concept of Culture (1950) (296)
The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi (2018) (262)
African Political Systems (2021) (257)
Kinship and the social order (1970) (243)
Social and psychological aspects of education in Taleland (1938) (181)
Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations (1964) (162)
Kinship And Marriage Among The Ashanti (1950) (159)
Oedipus and Job in West African Religion (1960) (141)
Kingship and the Gods (1950) (131)
Endogenous Determinants of Social Structure. (Book Reviews: Kinship and the Social Order. The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan) (1970) (125)
Culture and Human Fertility. (1956) (110)
Religion, Morality and the Person: Essays on Tallensi Religion (1987) (108)
Time and Social Structure and other Essays (1973) (88)
Food in the Domestic Economy of the Tallensi (1936) (78)
Family and colour in Jamaica (1968) (78)
African Systems of Thought (1985) (66)
Parenthood, Marriage and Fertility in West Africa (1978) (63)
Psychosis and Social Change Among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana (1966) (54)
An Anthropologist's Apprenticeship (1978) (51)
331. Descent, Filiation and Affinity: A Rejoinder to Dr. Leach: Part II (1959) (42)
Of Installation Ceremonies (1967) (42)
Ashanti Survey, 1945-46: An Experiment In Social Research (1947) (39)
Religion, morality and the person: The concept of the person (1987) (34)
Marriage in Tribal Societies (1963) (33)
Pietas in Ancestor Worship (1961) (31)
Religion, morality, and the person (1987) (31)
Culture Contact as a Dynamic Process an Investigation in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1936) (31)
Religious premisses and logical technique in divinatory ritual (1966) (27)
RITUAL FESTIVALS AND SOCIAL COHESION IN THE HINTERLAND OF THE GOLD COAST (1936) (26)
The Ashanti Social Survey: A Preliminary Report (1948) (24)
Studies in African social anthropology (1975) (21)
Social structure : studies presented to A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1949) (19)
A Note on Fertility among the Tallensi of the Gold Coast (1943) (17)
Some Aspects of Migration and Mobility in Ghana (1971) (17)
The Significance of Descent in Tale Social Structure (1944) (14)
Radcliffe-Brown's Contributions to the Study of Social Organization (1955) (12)
Social anthropology at Cambridge since 1900 (1953) (12)
African systems of thought : studies presented and discussed at the Third International African Seminar in Salisbury, December 1960 (1965) (10)
An Introductory Commentary (1979) (9)
Names Among The Tallensi Of The Gold Coast (1955) (9)
Communal Fishing and Fishing Magic in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1937) (8)
Custom and conscience in anthropological perspective. (1977) (8)
Tallensi Ritual Festivals and the Ancestors (1975) (7)
Kinship and the Axiom of Amity (2017) (6)
The Impact of the War on British West Africa (1945) (6)
Religion, morality and the person: Divination: religious premisses and logical techniques (1987) (5)
A STUDY OF COGNITIVE ERROR. (1932) (5)
Time and Social Structure: An Ashanti Case Study 1 (2021) (4)
The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland (1933) (4)
Social anthropology : at Cambridge since 1900 : an inaugural lecture (1953) (4)
The Influence of Position in Sibship on Juvenile Delinquency (1933) (4)
Malinowski and the Study of Kinship (2013) (3)
Religion, morality and the person: Custom and conscience (1987) (3)
Religion, morality and the person: Ritual festivals and the ancestors (1987) (3)
Marriage in tribal societies (1965) (3)
Discussion and Criticism (1961) (3)
Religion, morality and the person: Ancestor worship in Africa (1987) (2)
Anthropology and the psychological disciplines (1980) (2)
Sex, Custom and Psychopathology . A Study of South African Pagan Natives. By B. J. F. Laubscher, Senior Psychiatrist, Union Mental Service, &c. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1937. Pp. xv + 347, 17 plates. 21s. (1939) (2)
80. Anthropological Training for Colonial Officials (1946) (2)
Malinowski and Freud. (1958) (2)
Institutionen in primitiven Gesellschaften (1967) (2)
Kin, Age Structure and Marriage amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines (1962) (2)
Notes on Juvenile Delinquency: I. The Age of Young Delinquents in East London (1933) (1)
The prologue: family studies in Ghana 1920-1970 (1974) (1)
Endpiece: sacrifice among theologians and anthropologists (1987) (1)
Religion, morality and the person: Prayer (1987) (1)
Oedipus and Job in West African Religions (1986) (1)
Religion, morality and the person: Ritual and office (1987) (1)
The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups 1 (2021) (1)
An Interview With Professor Meyer Fortes by Dr. Kwesi Prah and Professor A. Bujra (2004) (1)
Obituary: Margaret Mead, 1901–1978 (1979) (1)
Oedipus and Job in West African religion*: The 1956 Frazer Lecture (2018) (1)
The Akan family system today (1974) (1)
Analysis and Description in Social Anthropology 1 (2021) (0)
Book Review: Dynamic Social Research (1936) (0)
Meyer Fortes, ed. Marriage in tribal societies. [S. L.] : Cambridge University Press, 1962 (1964) (0)
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi: Foreword (1967) (0)
The Structural Relations of the Talis (2018) (0)
Pietas in Ancestor Worship 1 (2021) (0)
Radcliffe-Brown's Contributions to the Study of Social Organization 1 (2021) (0)
Human Ecology in West Africa (1945) (0)
The Social Structure of a Settlement (2018) (0)
Land, Locality, and the Earth (2018) (0)
Religion And Medicine Of The Gã People . By M. J. Field, pp. viii, 214, 32 illustrations, map. Oxford University Press, 1937. 17s. 6d. (1937) (0)
The Lineage in Ashanti (2017) (0)
The Homestead and the Joint Family (2018) (0)
Tensions in the Parent–Child Relationship (2018) (0)
Clanship and Ritual Collaboration (2018) (0)
Religion, morality and the person: Totem and taboo (1966) (0)
Towards The Judicial Process: A Tallensi Case (1987) (0)
Notes on Juvenile Delinquency: II. Step-Parenthood and Delinquency (1933) (0)
The Ashanti: A Proud People . By Robert A. Lystad. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1958. Pp. 212, plates, maps. $5.00. (1959) (0)
A Methodological Excursus (2017) (0)
The Moral Basis of the Relationship of Parent and Child (2018) (0)
Paradigm of the Lineage System (2018) (0)
Clanship: The Namoos (2018) (0)
Ritual Festivals and Social Cohesion in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast 1 (2021) (0)
Pre-Industrial Societies (1955) (0)
Social and Psychological Aspects of Education in Taleland 1 (2021) (0)
Religion, morality and the person: Notes (1987) (0)
Morgan: The Founding Father (2017) (0)
Totemism Among the Talis and Other Non-Namoos (2018) (0)
Kinship and the Lineage System (2018) (0)
Cognatic Systems and the Politico- Jural Domain : THEA USTRALIAN (2013) (0)
The Significance of Descent in Tale Social Structure 1 (2021) (0)
The Functions of Kinship (2018) (0)
The Bantu in the City. A Study of Cultural Adjustment on the Witwatersrand . By Ray E. Phillips. pp. xxix, 452. Johannesburg: The Lovedale Press, 1939. 10 s . (1940) (0)
Grandparents and Grandchildren (2018) (0)
African political systems. Edited by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. London : Oxford University Press, 1961. [16a reimpr.] (1964) (0)
Land Law and Custom in the Colonies (1948) (0)
Cognatic Systems and the Politico-Jural Domain (2017) (0)
Lecture and discussion on divination (2004) (0)
ENERGY VARIATION OF THE EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN. (1969) (0)
The Lineage in the Local Community (2018) (0)
Ashanti Patrilateral Kinship and its Values (2017) (0)
The Distribution of the Namoos (2018) (0)
Radcliffe-Brown and the Development of Structural Analysis (2017) (0)
The Genetic Development of Parent–Child Relationships (2018) (0)
The Kinship Polity (2017) (0)
Rudimentary Government (1959) (0)
Siblings in The Social Structure (2018) (0)
Parents and Children in the Framework of the Lineage (2018) (0)
Religion, morality and the person: Coping with destiny (1987) (0)
The Web of Extra-Clan Kinship (2018) (0)
The Place of Women in the Clan Organization (2018) (0)
Morgan and the Analytical Approach (2017) (0)
The Meaning of ‘Tallensi’ (2018) (0)
The African as Suckling and as Adult: A Psychological Study . By J. F. Ritchie. Rhodes-Livingstone Papers, No. 9, 1943. Pp. 61, price 2s. (1945) (0)
Husband and wife in the Structure of the Family (2018) (0)
A Century of Anthropology (1965) (0)
22. Ritual Festivals and Tribal Cohesion in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast (1936) (0)
The Form of Tale Society (2018) (0)
Descent, Filiation and Affinity 1 (2021) (0)