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The Kanuri of BornuBook 1967 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
In this monograph Cohen focuses upon the several selected aspects of Kanuri society which reveal a distinctive and patterned set of social relationships underlying and integrating the prime institutional areas of Kanuri life. The Kanuri household is ...The structure of Kanuri societyBook 1960 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
This is Cohen's Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology submitted to the University of Wisconsin. It contains a good, detailed analysis of Kanuri social organization focusing on the sociopolitical system. Cohen shows how the patterning of interpersonal re...The success that failedarticle 1961 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
In this brief article, Cohen analyzes the failure of an agricultural experiment which was designed to introduce a new type of fertilizer to Kanuri peasants. He points to the importance of studying the cultural and psychological context of innovation ...Dominance and defianceBook 1971 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
This is a study of marriage stability and divorce among the Kanuri of northeastern Nigeria. The divorce rate among the Kanuri is extremely high: 64% of marriages ever contracted end in divorce and 71% of people have been divorced at least once. Cohen...Some aspects of institutionalized exchangearticle 1965 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
This is an historical account of the Kanuri economy. The nineteenth- century Kanuri economy was a peripheral market economy in which there was no universal form of currency and only some goods and services entered into the marketplace, for example ag...The Kingship in Bornuessay 1970 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
In this article, Cohen examines state development in the Chad basin from the first millenium A.D. up to 1968. The earliest state was a loose confederacy of clans under the leadership of a dominant lineage. The arrival of Islamic teachers at the end o...Marriage instability among the Kanuri of northern Nigeriaarticle 1961 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
In this article Cohen examines the reasons for high divorce rates among the Kanuri. For one, there are no moral sanctions against divorce. Islam does not proscribe against it and there are socially accepted roles for divorced women to hold. However, ...Incorporation in Bornuessay 1970 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
Cohen examines the process of incorporation of (1) ethnic groups into the Bornu state and (2) the Bornu kingdom into Nigeria. The former is the historically older and longer process and varied according to whether the groups were internal or external...Social stratification in Bornuessay 1970 • Cohen, Ronald
Kanuri • Africa > Western Africa
In this article, Cohen examines the multiple factors, such as ethnicity, occupation, lineage, gender, class, and material wealth, which influence Kanuri status distinctions. Traditionally, Kanuri society was divided between a noble class, who resided...