Custom and Politics in Urban Africa : A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

ISBN-13: 9780415320092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

Abner Cohen; Abner Cohen;Cohen Abner

Opis

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 60s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area, (then the western region of the Federation of Nigeria), this book looks at how ethnic groups use elements of tradition in jostling for power and privilege in new urban situations. This is a landmark work in urban anthropology and provides a comparative framework for studying political processes in African societies.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Migratory Process; Chapter 2 The Migratory Process; Chapter 3 Landlords of the Trade; Chapter 4 The Politics of Long-Distance Trade (1906–1950); Chapter 5 From a Tribal Polity to a Religious Brotherhood (1951–63); Chapter 6 Chapter Six: The Ritualization of Political Authority; Conclusions: Political Ethnicity in Contemporary African Towns;

O autorze

Abner Cohen was formerly Professor of Anthropology at the University of London, and carried out intensive fieldwork in Africa and the Near East. Custom and Politics in Urban Africa earned him the prestigious Amaury Talbot Prize in 1969.