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Ecology and social structure among the North eastern Iboarticle 1961 • Jones, Gwilym Iwan
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
Jones proposes that the distinctive features of the Northeastern Igbo social structure are a modification of the more typical Igbo structure. Further, he posits that this modification is in response to new environmental conditions. He compares the re...Ibo age organization, with special reference to the Cross River and north-eastern Iboarticle 1962 • Jones, Gwilym Iwan
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
This source presents a comprehensive analysis of Igbo age organization, based primarily on the author's field work in the eastern Igbo region in 1927-1946 and again in 1956 and further supplemented by unpublished government reports written in the per...Ibo (Igbo)essay 1950 • Forde, Cyril Daryll & Jones, Gwilym Iwan
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
This source identifies the various Igbo sub-groups and situates them spatially. The authors illustrate the diversity in the Igbo population by outlining salient characteristic forms of kinship, social organization, religiopus beliefs, economic activi...