LECTURE BY MEYER FORTES


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Lecture by Meyer Fortes on Talensi divination

Fortes describes the benefits (and draw-backs) of using a tape-recorder in the study of divination among the Talensi of Ghana, and the changes which had occurred between his first fieldwork in the 1930's and his return in 1963.

Filmed in Cambridge in 1982 by the Audio Visual Aids Unit, with the assistance of Stephen Levinson and organized by Jack Goody. This is a short extract.

Lecture followed by discussion.