Abutia

location

population density

abundance of land

immigrant villages

history

north-south opposition

source of unity

fiagã in Teti

aggregation in modern judiciary organization

source of unity as village league

agbanu (see also lineage organization)

composition

genealogical boundary

sizes

aggregated group in judiciary activities

no intermediate level of aggregation

fixed number per clan

as land-owning corporation

lack of proliferation

Type I

Type II

Type III

mode of aggregation

distribution of types per clan

as owners of village sites

secular nature

literal meaning

agbanumetsitsi

criteria of eligibility

powers

secular accession

Aggregation

definition of

distinct from alliance

Agove

location

population

Akpokli

ownership of stool

unusual size

Alliances

ametsitsi : see elder.

Anlo

location

contrast with Ewe-dome

aggregation above village level

agressive polity

village reproduction

lineage organization

residential composition

matrimonial practices

asafo : see Military organization.

Atando

Burials symbolic division of the body

Church E. P.

Classical descent theory

conceptual basis

as explanatory model

failures

Hobbesian assumptions

Council of Elders

Descent

Rivers' definition

meaning in 'classical descent theory'

transactionalist definition of

ontological variability of

operational definition of

Divorce

ease of

reasons for

high frequency

and village out-marriage

risks

and size of descent groups

and origin of spouses

and lineage in-marriage

risks over time

precolonial frequency

causes of high rates

du : see Village.

dufia

disputed

relationship to citizenry

dzo

Elders

and fia

Etsri

foreign origin

marginal position in

connubium

Eweland

total area

population

linguistic homogeneity

social heterogeneity

fhome : See Minimal lineage.

fhomemetsitsi

criteria of eligibility

length of tenure

secular nature

fia

link to stool

rotation

selection

reluctance to accept

position

forcible enstoolment

possible destoolment

priest

relation to fia-to

repository of the stool's

spirit

bi-dimensional aspect at

village level

interpretation by colonial

administration

prohibitions

fiagã

from Teti

justification of preeminence

Genealogical knowledge

distortions

transmission

Groups

Rivers' definition

Radcliffe-Brown's definition

segmentary definition

corporatist model

gu

Hamlets

Houses

architecture

house-building

devolution of

occupation of bedrooms

secular nature of

In-marriage

within village

within clans

within lineages

percentages by clan

between clans

and prostitution

variation over years

and genealogical amnesia

recent evolution

conditions favouring

link to aggregation

Kinship

Rivers's definition

operationalist definition

terminology

Kloe

location

population

census

Labour migrations

Land

sales

ownership by agbanu

individualization of ownership

legba

Legend of origin

Literacy : see Schooling.

Lineage organization

no intermediate lineage

descent alone aggregates

and ancestor worship

and low polygyny rates

and divorce

and descent group in-marriage

mankrado

Manslaughter

Marriage

former rites

link to legitimacy of children

disappearance of traditional ceremony

and control over sexuality

and labour migrations

problem of definition

operational definition

not criterion of membership of many groups

prohibitions

preferences

size of exchanging units and marriage payments

age differences between spouses

marriage ceremony

Marriage payments

and divorce

their explanation

Military organization

mode of recruitment

leadership

warfare

Minimal lineage

as minimal judiciary group

criteria of membership

cognatic aspect

ideal reproduction of

realistic reproduction of

genealogical boundary

small size

number in Kloe

secular nature

polysemy

literal meaning

Naming

lack of patronyms

teknonymy

nuvo

ny õ nu-fia

Operationalism

preconditions

not explanatory model

Politics

definition

Political Sovereignty

conventional definition

limits of conventional approach

operational definition

Polygyny

no ranking of co-wives

no sororal

incidence

intensity

current rates

overall low rates

age of polygynists

duration

life-cycle of polygynists

as reproductive strategy

distribution by lineage

and lineage size

and lineage reproduction

and fertility

Prostitution

and clan size

and wealth

and female headship

and in-marriage

Ranking

and village sovereignty

Remarriage

Residence : see Residential groups

Residential groups

assumptions underlying their classification

classification of

composition of male-headed groups

and marital stability

and demographic/physical factors

male coresidence

distribution of various types by clan

female headship

non-nucleated groups

individual incorporation

and change in building material

and labour migrations

impression of matrifocality

abscence of developmental cycle

limit of growth

neolocal trend

and descent

sãme

aggregated group in judiciary activities

names

representatives

as religious corporations

clans with stools

number of clans

clan sizes

lack of proliferation

localization

literal meaning

prohibitions

paraphernalia

sãmefia

sãmemetsitsi

Schooling

Segementary lineage systems

intrinsic contradiction

various meanings of segmentation

srõnyi

Stools

clan ownership of

location

link to titled offices

as trõ

external origin

recent borrowing

special spiritual nature

their rituals

priest and ritual attorney

Stool-father

Teti

location

population

Tonu

location

division in wards

t o viwo

trõwo

division in celestial and chthonic

chthonic ones

celestial ones

priestess as voice of

trõyiawo

tsiame

tsofo

Villages

aggregated in judiciary activities

names

territorial groups

Village Development

Committee

Village sovereignty

implications for membership of

political groups

and witchcraft and manslaughter

and citizenship

and residential mobility

and link to dufia

and lack of centralization

and political statics

and village reproduction

and mitotic fission

and village sizes

and clan localization

and the nature of hamlets

and lineage reproduction

incompatible with ranking and clientelism

Widow-inheritance

Witchcraft

Worship

priestesses

ritual attorneys

xonu : See Houses.

yiãwo

zikpi-to : see Stool-father.