Ashanti (African people)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008587
- info:lc/authorities/sh85008587
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85008587#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Achanti (African people)
- Asante (African people)
- Asanti (African people)
- Ashante Twi (African people)
- Ashantee (African people)
- Ashantis (African people)
Broader Terms
- Akan (African people)
- Ethnology--Ghana
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb126490861
Earlier Established Forms
- Ashantis (African people)
Sources
- found: Work cat.: 78-63214: Akan-Ashanti folk-tales, 1982.
- found: African ethonyms and toponyms: p. 143 (Ashanti (Asante, Asanti) Ghana)
- found: Ethnologue: p. 104 (Asante (Ashante Twi, Achanti) Ghana)
- found: Illus. encyc. mankind: v. 2, pp. 113-17 (Asanti)
- found: Murdock world cult.: p. 50 (Ashanti (Asante) Ghana)
- found: Voegelin lang.: p. 347 (Asante (Ashanti))
LC Classification
- DT507
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1993-03-03: revised

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