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Craft organization on Yoruba towns
Africa • 23 • Published In 1953 • Pages: 30-44
By: Lloyd, Peter Cutt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is a description of the organization of the traditional crafts of the Yoruba, primarily on a kinship basis, and of new crafts introduced by European contact. The latter have formed guild organizations which preserve some of the functions of the older organizations, but are based on territorial rather than kinship divisions of the society. The author discusses structure, functions, technology, and training under both the old and new organization, comparing and contrasting the two, and showing how similar purposes are attained by differing methods in the formal organizations and in other related groups. At the time of publicaiton the author was Assistant Research Fellow, West African Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor organization
- External trade
- Urban and rural life
- Occupational specialization
- Towns
- Cultural participation
- Transmission of skills
- General tools
- Taxation and public income
- Vocational education
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yoruba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter C. Lloyd
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)