Book
Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces
Government of Nigeria • Lagos • Published In 1939 • Pages:
By: Ward-Price, Henry Lewis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed report of native law and culture related to land tenure in the Yoruba provinces, prepared by the Resident of Oyo Province who was appointed by the Governor of Nigeria to Undertake the study. Both the traditional customs and modern practices are considered, as evident among the Yoruba in general and in several specific divisions. Aspects which receive attention are; traditional origins of customs, acquisition of lands by new settlements and immigrants, tenancy rights to land and crops, family relationships involved in property settlements, and the growth of individual ownership and sales of land. The author illustrates with individual cases many of the customs discussed. Data on Benin have been indexed for the Edo collection (FF21).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Inheritance
- Extended families
- Renting and leasing
- Clans
- Community heads
- Gift giving
- Renting and leasing
- External relations
- Territorial hierarchy
- Tillage
- Litigation
- Credit
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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. 1932
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- H. L. Ward Price
- Appendix C. A Note on land tenure in the Yoruba Provinces -- Sir Donald Cameron
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036186
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)