Book
Gods and goods in Africa: persistence and change in ethnic and religious identity in Yauri Emirate, North-Western State, Nigeria
Human Relations Area Files, Inc. • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 2 v. ii, 308 leaves
By: Salamone, Frank A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study, Salamone analyzes the mechanisms through which ethnic groups in Nigeria maintain or modify their ethnic identities. He concentrates primary attention on the Dukawa and the Gungawa of the Yauri Emirate, North-Western State, Nigeria, and on the their relations with the Hausa, which he describes as the ruling group within Yauri. For comparative purposes, he presents data on the Kamberi and the Shangawa, two non-Hausa groups, as well as on several other groups, including the Maguzawa, a non-Muslim Hausa group in Zaria Province, and the Hausa of Ibadan, Nigeria. Key findings concern the change in ethnic status from Gungawa to Hausa that has occurred and the resistence to changing ethnic status displayed by the Dukawa. Salamone presents information on the Hausa of Ibadan to facilitate his discription of the processes involved in the shifting of ethnic boundaries.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Status, role, and prestige
- Regulation of marriage
- Missions
- General character of religion
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hausa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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
- Ronald N. Johnson ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970, 1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1800-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yauri Emirate, North-Western State, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frank A. Salamone
- Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 272-286)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82200914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)