Women's roles in the mourning rituals of the Akan of Ghana

Ethnology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-271

  Aborampah, Osei Mensah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; GENDER RELATIONS; MORTALITY; WOMENS STATUS;

GHANA;

EID: 0032739914     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773817     Document Type: Article

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