Book
Custom & politics in urban Africa: a study of Hausa migrants in Yoruba towns
University of California Press • Berkeley, Calif. • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Cohen, Abner.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this monograph, Cohen focuses on the Hausa in the Sabo section of Ibadan, Nigeria, and their relations with the Yoruba, who are the numerically predominant group in Ibadan. Cohen discusses processes by which the Hausa manipulate values, norms, beliefs, and symbols in order to develop an informal political organization which they use as a weapon in their struggle for power with the Yoruba. Cohen describes the ways that the Hausa have maintained control over long-distance trade in Western Nigeria, and remained socially exclusive and politically autonomous within a multi-ethnic Nigerian society. He concludes, among other things, that the Hausa used religious ideology in the form of the Tijaniyya order to retain their identity as a distinct community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External trade
- Retail marketing
- Occupational specialization
- Ethnic stratification
- Community heads
- Congregations
- 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 ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- August 1962 - November 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sabo, Ibadan, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Abner Cohen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68055743
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)