Girls' Nubility Rites in Ashanti Sarpong, Peter

Ghana Publishing Corporation
Year of publishing: 1977
Place of publishing: Tema
ISBN: 0000000000000
Language: English
Series: first

Kniha poskytuje nový a hlubší vhled do jedné důležité společenské instituce Ashanti –obřad, který mají potvrdit, že dívka dosáhla věku, kdy se může vdát. Po dosažení puberty je tedy obřadem uvedena do širší společnosti jako žena, která plně dosáhla ženství. Ačkoli pro lid Ashanti je tento obřad velmi významný, obvykle mu v etnografických studií o této kultuře není věnováno příliš místa. Autor této publikace využívá zkušeností a poznatků, které sám získal. Studie popisuje veškeré kroky tohoto rituálu: pozadí, přípravy, obřad samotný i význam, který obřad jak pro dívku, která obřad podstoupí, tak také pro celou společnost. Autor se také zabývá dopady modernity na tento rituál.

The book provides a new and deep insight into an important social institution of the Ashanti; the nubility ceremonies performed for the Ashanti girl on her attainment of physiological puberty, the means by which she is introduced into the larger society around her as a full-grown woman. Although an important institution among the Ashanti, nobility rites for girls have not been given the place they deserve in ethnographic writings on this people. In the book a new light is being shed on it by a renowned writer who utilizes his own first-hand knowledge effectively, so that the general accuracy of the account is well assured. The work is an elaborate study of all aspects of the rites; the background, the preparations, the ceremonies themselves, and the significance for both the girl and her society. The author finally talks about the effects of modernity on the instructions.

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