UNIVERSITY  OF  GHANA

INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN  STUDIES

RESEARCH REVIEW

VOL.3  NO.2

LENT  TERM 1967.

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RESEARCH REVIEW

CONTENTS

INSTITUTE  NEWS

Staff 

LEADING  ARTICLE

Leo  Frobenius and  cultural  research  in Africa 

PROJECT  REPORTS 

Ashanti  Research  Project 
Collection  of  oral  traditions 

INDIVIDUAL  RESEARCH REPORTS

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Plants mentioned  in  Nketia's  "Drumming  in  Akan
Communities  of  Ghana" 
The  popular  theatre  in  Ghana 
The ancestors  in  Ghanaian  religious  and  social
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behaviour 
Masquerade  societies  in  Ghana * 

NOTES

A  note  on  the  role  of  the  father's  sister  in  Dagbon. 
Further  notes on  Ghana's  xylophone  traditions. 
A  note on Akan-centred  linguistic  acculturation.... 

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LIBRARY AND  MUSEUM REPORTS

Seminar papers by  M . A.  Students 
Draft  papers 
Books donated to  the  Institute  of African  Studies 
Ethnographic  'Finds'.RegaliaJJ 
The  remnants of Ashanti  Tafo's  glories  in  pottery 

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INSTITUTE NEWS

Staff

New Appointments

Miss.  S.M.B.  Drid Williams  from University of Wisconsin
University  Extension Division, has been appointed Chief
Instructor  in the School of Music and Drama.

Study Leave

Mrs.  C.  Oppong B.A.(Cantab)  M.A.  (Legon)  Research
Fellow  in Social Anthropology  feft  for Britain on Study
Leave.

Visiting  Professors

Dr.  Roy Sieber,  Professor of  Fine Arts,  Indiana  University
Blomington,  Indiana,  U.S.A.,  has arrived in the Institute
as a Visiting  Professor.

Professor Richard Greenfield of Division of Area Studies,
State  University  College,  New  Palts, New York,  is in
the Institute  as a Visiting Senior Research  Fellow.