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The Afikpo Ibo of eastern Nigeria
Peoples of Africa • New York • Published In 1965 • Pages: [title 1-title 2], 1-39
By: Ottenberg, Phoebe.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides general data on the Afikpo Igbo. Its topics include: settlement patterns, economic activity, family and household, kinship, social organization and stratification, and religious beliefs. Some limited comparisons are made with other Igbo peoples.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Age stratification
- Lineages
- Clans
- Cult of the dead
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Igbo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan Simpson ; John Beierle;1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1953, 1959-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- mid-twentieth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Afikpo village group, eastern Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Phoebe Ottenberg
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65010276
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Igbo (African people)