Land, lineage and clan in early Anlo

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Title:	Land, lineage and clan in early Anlo
Author:	Greene, Sandra E.
Year:	1981
Periodical:	Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:	51
Issue:	1
Pages:	451-464
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	Anlo kinship
External links:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158948 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1981-051-00-000001
Abstract:	Doubts have been raised about the inherent ability of the lineage to generate a clan system. Consequently, factors outside the lineage system are to be accounted for this process. It is in this context that the author in the first section of this paper discusses the ecological setting and social formation of early Anlo society (Ghana) before the late 17th and early 18th century period of clan formation; in the second section she looks at the historical events that affected Anlo society; in the third section she examines why these events appear to have prompted the formation of a new social unit known as the hlo, and what impact the addition of this new group had on the pre-existing social formation of the Anlo. Ref., notes, fig., French sum.