Book
Ritual roles of women in Onitsha Ibo society
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Henderson, Helen Kreider.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study focuses on the roles of women in traditional (i.e., pre-Westernized) Onitsha Igbo society. Data for the account are drawn from early accounts by travellers and missionaries and from informants' recall of past events. While the stress is on women's roles in rituals such as shrine worship, funeral ceremonies, and witchcraft, there is a good deal of information on women's roles in the domestic, political, and economic spheres as well. It should be noted that, although the author uses the present tense, she is generally referring to the latter half of the 19th century. Some caution should be exercised in using the materials presented in this source since the author presents an ideal model of women's roles based on materials that may come from different time periods.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Purification and atonement
- Sacred objects and places
- Regulation of marriage
- Basis of marriage
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Gender status
- Cultural participation
- Lineages
- Age stratification
- Sodalities
- Sorcery
- Status, role, and prestige
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- 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 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1981
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960-1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1850-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Onitsha town and vicinity, southeastern Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Helen Kreider Henderson
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California, Berkeley, 1970
- UM70-13,066
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-526)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Igbo (African people)