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 and sorghum as staples and raise cattle, sheep, and goats on a small scale. Their normal domestic unit is the polygamous joint family of a man and his sons (and sometimes grandsons) with their wives and unmarried daughters. Married daughters live with their husbands in other communities, commonly nearby.
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...
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...
situated 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...
peoples, the Mano, Bassa Grebo and Kwanko (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Togo), the Tallensi, Mamprusi, Kusaasi (Ghana), the Nuer (Southern Sudan), etc. — numbering...
fieldwork, Evans-Pritchard (1940) and Meyer Fortes (1945) argued that the Tallensi and the Nuer were primarily organized around unilineal descent groups....
National Park". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Tenzug - Tallensi settlements". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Navrongo...
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...
(Pygmies) Nkundo (Mongo) Banen Tiv Igbo Fon Ashanti (Twi) Mende Bambara Tallensi Massa Azande Otoro Nuba Shilluk Mao Maasai Circum-Mediterranean Wolof Songhai...
the consumption of dog meat is common despite a longstanding taboo. The Tallensi, the Akyims, the Kokis, and the Yaakuma, one of many cultures of Ghana...
by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of...
resolved through rituals of avoidance. This was most extreme among the Tallensi. Among East Asian peoples, on the other hand, co-residence between parents...
anthropology that ethnographically considered educational forms of the Tallensi and Tikopia people, done by Meyer Fortes and Raymond Firth. However, there...
by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of...
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...
Tongnaab (literally "Chief of the Earth") is a deity associated with the Tallensi people of northern Ghana. Tongnaab is particularly believed to have powers...
(2023-10-20). "Kyyti uudessa ratikassa näytti monta vaaran paikkaa: Video tallensi radalla toikkaroivat kulkijat". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved...
Retrieved 10 December 2018. Himberg, Petra (14 January 2014). "Signe Brander tallensi katoavan Helsingin" (in Finnish). Yle.fi. Retrieved 10 December 2018. Silverman...
(1955) of the Royal Anthropological Institute for The kinship system of the Tallensi: a revaluation (Published in JRAI 1956, pp. 37–75). Worsley, Peter (1957)...
Frafra people. This includes Gurune, also known as Frafra, Nankani, Booni, Tallensi, and Nabdam. Funeral forms part of the Gurene tradition as this aims at...
and the Neolithic in the British Isles: Some Observations based upon the Tallensi, Northern Ghana". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 16 (2): 223–238. doi:10...
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