Book
Boyhood rituals in an African society: an interpretation
University of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Ottenberg, Simon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the traditional aspects of boyhood in the Afikpo village-group in southeastern Nigeria, with a focus on the village of Mgbom. The author's original intention was to analyze the boy's initiation ceremonies at adolescence, but he soon found that he could not take this out of the context of their earlier childhood experiences. As a result this monograph provides detailed accounts of infancy and childhood and their link to adolescent initiation into the Igbo secret societies (p.xiii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality development
- Body alterations
- Athletic sports
- Age stratification
- Sodalities
- Family relationships
- Sacred objects and places
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Development and maturation
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1953, 1959-1960, 1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mgbom village, Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Simon Ottenberg
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87021701
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Igbo (African people)