The Igbo of southeast Nigeria
By: by Victor C. Uchendu.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Igbo (African people); Ethnology -- Nigeria
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The igbo world. The world of man and the world of spirits -- Maintaining cosmological balance -- Manipulating his world -- Cyclical nature of status seeking -- Transparent living -- “A country is spoiled by men” -- A world of change -- Equalitarianism -- Summary -- How the Igbo make their living. Farming : land tenure -- The farming cycle -- The preparation of palm oil -- Trading -- The marketplace and the “market peace” -- The “market ring” -- Price determination -- Livestock tenancy -- Wage labor -- Helping the town “to get up”. Earlier patterns of “getting up” -- Modern development and self-help -- “Human investment” -- The improvement unions -- Igbo ways in government. Authority in the “family” -- Autonomy of the village -- Government of the village-group (town) -- Three sample governments -- Igboland under colonial rule. The direct administration -- The warrant chiefs -- The reforms of 1930-1931 -- Changes preceding independence -- Founding a new family. Emphasis on married status -- Types of marriage -- Stages in the marriage process -- The adjustment of the new bride -- The “big compound” ideal of the Igbo family -- The developmental cycle of the “big compound” -- New trends in the Igbo family system -- Growing up in an Igbo village. Igbo ideas about conception -- A child is born -- The umbilical cord -- A child is named -- “Churching”: an outing ceremony -- The Igbo child shares two worlds -- The kinship network. The agnates -- The mother’s agnates -- The “remote” kinsmen -- Balancing kinship conflicts -- Naming the kin -- Igbo hospitality. Principles of hospitality -- Forms of hospitality -- “Kola” hospitality -- Nonkinship associations. Work groups -- Credit associations -- Dibia associations -- Title societies -- Associations and village integration -- Status placement among Igbo. Age and kinship status -- Marriage and social position -- The status of women -- Diala and non-diala status -- The osu system of slavery -- Leadership and status placement -- Associational status -- Western impact on the Igbo status system -- Igbo gods and oracles. Igbo ideas of the high god -- Ala, the Earth-Goddess -- Other spirits -- Igbo oracles -- The ancestors -- The Igbo and culture contact -- Orthography -- References -- Recommended reading.