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The Yoruba frontier : a regional history of community formation, experience, and changes in West Africa / Aribidesi Usman.
Penn Museum Library DT515.45.Y67 U86 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Usman, Aribidesi.
- Series:
- Carolina Academic Press African world series
- African world series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoruba (African people)--Nigeria--History.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Yoruba (African people)--History.
- History.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Nigeria--History--To 1851.
- Nigeria.
- Nigeria--History--1851-1899.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Africa, West.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- In this collection of the author's previously published and unpublished papers and field notes, Usman (anthropology, Arizona State U.) describes societies, migrations, and social interactions in Nigeria's Northern Yorubaland from pre-colonial times to the early 20th century, drawing on anthropological and historical sources. In addition to shedding light on ethnic interactions, warfare, and social and political institutions in Yoruba communities, the author also offers a general examination of the processes of frontier history in a cultural context. The book is illustrated with a total of 57 b&w photos, illustrations, and maps. Its readership includes scholars and students interested in the dynamics of change in small-scale societies of Africa. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Background to the study of precolonial northern Yoruba
- The making of the Yoruba frontier: the pioneers
- Second wave: non-autochthonous migrant settlers
- The Yoruba frontier in the Age of the Empire, ca. 1500-1750
- The Yoruba frontier in the Age of Revolution, ca. 1750-1900
- Nineteenth-century missionary activities, resettlements, and merger agitation
- Conclusions: the place of northern Yoruba in African frontier studies.
- Notes:
- "This book combines a series of previously published and unpublished papers and field notes."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1594603847
- 9781594603846
- OCLC:
- 747232714
- Publisher Number:
- 99947280604
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