Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960
Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

Author: Gloria Chuku

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780415972109

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Extrait de amazon.com : "Among Africanists and feminists, the Igbo-speaking women of southeastern Nigeria are well known for their history of anti-colonial activism which was most demonstrated in the 1929 War against British Colonialism. Perplexed by the magnitude of the Women's War, the colonial government commissioned anthropologists/ethnographers to study the Igbo political system and the place of women in Igbo society. The primary motive was to have a better understanding of the Igbo in order to avoid a repeat of the Women's War. This study will analyze the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro."

Ways of the Rivers
Ways of the Rivers

Author: Martha G. Anderson

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 370

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The essays assembled in this lavishly illustrated volume are unique in considering issues of cultural convergence and divergence within a single region in Africa. They examine and celebrate the "water-related" ethos and the "warrior" ethos that are present throughout the Delta and explore the influence of its unique environment on beliefs and material culture.

Red Gold of Africa
Red Gold of Africa

Author: Eugenia W. Herbert

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780299096045

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The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.

Metalworkers and their Tools: Symbolism, Function, and Technology in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Metalworkers and their Tools: Symbolism, Function, and Technology in the Bronze and Iron Ages

Author: Linda Boutoille

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1803276258

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12 papers by 22 authors from the “Metools” symposium (Queens University, Belfast, 2016), aim to shine a spotlight on the tools of the metalworker and to follow their evolution from the beginning of the Bronze Age through to the Iron Age, as well as the place held by metalworking and its artisans in the economic and social landscape of the period.

Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

Author: Patricia Samford

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Published: 2007-12-16

Total Pages: 256

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Investigates the development of hypotheses about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into the daily lifeways and culture of these early inhabitants. A common characteristic of Virginia slave quarters is the presence of subfloor pits beneath the houses. The most common explanations of the functions of these pits are as storage places for personal belongings or root vegetables, and some contextual and ethnohistoric data suggest they may have served as West Africa-style shrines. Through excavations of 103 subfloor pits dating from the 17th through mid-19th centuries, Samford reveals a wealth of data including shape, location, surface area, and depth, as well as contents and patterns of related feature placement. Archaeology reveals the material circumstances of slaves’ lives, which in turn opens the door to illuminating other aspects of life: spirituality, symbolic meanings assigned to material goods, social life, individual and group agency, and acts of resistance and accommodation. Analysis of the artifact assemblages allows the development of hypotheses about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake.