Book
Anioma: a social history of the Western Igbo people
Ohio University Press • Athens • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: Ohadike, Don C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a social history of the Anioma people of the western Igbo culture area of Nigeria from approximately the tenth to the twentieth centuries A.D. Ohadike describes in the book '…how certain decentralized (or small scale) African societies like the Igbos funtioned in the precolonial periods, how their settlements grew from a few individuals to tens of thousands of people, how they admitted and integrated outsiders into the host communities, how they responded to the opportunities and crises generated by both internal African developments and external world political and economic forces, and how they made the transition from the traditional to the 'modern' market economy' (p. xix). The Atlantic slave trade is also discussed in the text in reference to the Anioma. The author believes that it was not the slave trade itself that caused so many problems for the people, but its effects after the trade was ended. He also describes the response of the Anioma to the British colonial conquest of Nigeria, and how they adjusted to the indirect rule system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Traditional history
- Historical reconstruction
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Vegetable production
- Slavery
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Judicial authority
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Disasters
- Missions
- 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1970s-1980s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 900 A.D. - twentieth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Anioma Igbo, western Igbo culture area, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Don C. Ohadike
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-242)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93031029
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Igbo (African people)