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Craft organization on Yoruba towns
Africa • 23 • Published In 1953 • Pages: 30-44
By: Lloyd, Peter Cutt.
Abstract
This study is a description of the organization of the traditional crafts of the Yoruba, primarily on a kinship basis, and of new crafts introduced by European contact. The latter have formed guild organizations which preserve some of the functions of the older organizations, but are based on territorial rather than kinship divisions of the society. The author discusses structure, functions, technology, and training under both the old and new organization, comparing and contrasting the two, and showing how similar purposes are attained by differing methods in the formal organizations and in other related groups. At the time of publicaiton the author was Assistant Research Fellow, West African Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field Date
- ca. 1952
- Coverage Date
- 1950-1953
- Coverage Place
- Nigeria
- Notes
- Peter C. Lloyd
- LCCN
- 29010790
- LCSH
- Yoruba (African people)