Hugo Huber's The Krobo, published as volume sixteen of Studia Instituti Anthropos by the Anthropos Institute in 1963, is a scholarly ethnography of the traditional social and religious life of the Adangme-speaking Krobo of southeastern Ghana, based on six years of fieldwork. Its strength is that its length and duration of fieldwork make it an unusually thorough documentary record for its period, still cited as a standard reference on Krobo social structure. Its limit is that it documents practice as observed at mid-twentieth century, so a claim about Krobo religious life today needs a more recent source alongside this study.
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Published as volume sixteen of Studia Instituti Anthropos by the Anthropos Institute in 1963, Hugo Huber's scholarly ethnography based on six years of fieldwork, treated at the top tier. NotesBased on six years of fieldwork among the Adangme-speaking Krobo of south eastern Ghana.
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AuthorHugo Huber
PublisherThe Anthropos Institute (Studia Instituti Anthropos, vol. 16)
Publication Year1963
Source TypeEthnography
Claims Backed By This Source (24 claims)
This source backs 24 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religions, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Rituals, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
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