Book
The Igbo of southeast Nigeria
Rinehart and Winston • New York • Published In 1965 • Pages: xiii, 111
By: Uchendu, Victor Chikezie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, whose author is both anthropologist and Igbo, is a general summary of Igbo social organization. This includes material on world view, cosmology, religious beliefs and practices, property ownership, division of labor, kin and non-kin networks, life cycle, status system, and modes of government.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Tillage
- Real property
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Status, role, and prestige
- Slavery
- Visiting and hospitality
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Kinship terminology
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Towns
- Cities
- Cosmology
- Spirits and gods
- Childbirth
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan Simpson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1935-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1935-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeast Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Victor C. Uchendu
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-110)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65020597
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Igbo (African people)