Death, property and the ancestors
Subtitle: a study of the mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Dagari (African people); Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Ghana
Notes: Bibliography: p. [436]-444.
Table of contents: title: A note on orthography -- General background. The people and the problem -- Approaches to the study of mortuary institutions -- The analysis of ceremony and rite -- Death. The day of death -- The day of death : mourning the dead -- Adjustment to loss : the second day -- The burial of the dead -- Income and outlay -- After the burial -- The causes of death -- The bitter funeral beer -- From ghost to spirit : the final ceremony -- Property. The merry bells : intergenerational transmission and its conflicts -- Property -- Inheritance -- Succession and inheritance among the LoDagaa -- The ancestors. The eschatology of the LoDagaa -- Diis manibus -- Conclusions.