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Dancing women and colonial menessay 2001 • Bastian, Misty L.
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
Bastian has written an account of the Igbo Woman's War of 1929. The war, really a market riot, involved older married women attacking younger unmarried women in the marketplace and stripping t...The demon superstitionarticle 2001 • Bastian, Misty L.
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
In the colonial period, the Igbo found themselves between a rock and a hard place with regard to the practice of twin killing. Animal-like multiple births (UMU EJIME) was an abomination (NSO A...Fires, tricksters and poisoned medicinesarticle 1998 • Bastian, Misty L.
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
This is a study of the discourse surrounding market fires based on Bastian's doctoral research (see her dissertation, document no. 46.) The Igbo are inveterate traders and open air markets, so...Married in the waterarticle 1997 • Bastian, Misty L.
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
This is another study of OGBAANJE (see document no. 37). Ogbaanje are incarnate spirits who 'possess' children at birth but soon have their fill of human life returning to the spirit world, wh...The world as marketplaceBook 2001 • Bastian, Misty L.
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
This is a study of the discourse surrounding Igbo markets. Bastion examines what people say about market fires and money magic. According to Bastian the discourse on money magic reveals ambiva...