Life in Southern Nigeria PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Life in Southern Nigeria PDF full book. Access full book title Life in Southern Nigeria by Percy Amaury Talbot. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Percy Amaury Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Percy Amaury Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Get Book
Book Description
Author: PERCY AMAURY. TALBOT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033165140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book
Book Description
Author: P. Amaury Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ibibio (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Percy Amaury Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Percy Amaury Talbot
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259474708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Get Book
Book Description
Excerpt from Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe To my critics I would say that, written in the depths of the bush it describes, far from every book of reference, or the society of those who might have enriched its poverty from the store of their learning, this book claims nothing, save that it strives to tell the story of a little-known people from a standpoint as near as possible to their own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: D. Amaury Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409936398
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Get Book
Book Description
Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People was written by Dorothy Amaury Talbot (1877-1945) The book concerns the Ibibio of southern Nigeria and focuses mostly on the life of women in that culture. For many years good fortune has granted to my sister and myself the happiness of living amid scenes of indescribable beauty and peoples of peculiar interest. The novelty of being the first white women to visit any particular spot has indeed long worn off by reason of the frequency of the experience, but the thrill of penetrating to places as yet unvisited by any European is still a matter of unmixed joy. Time and again our little party has been so fortunate as to happen upon peoples never studied before, who have been induced to confide to us traditions, beliefs, and legends of unexpected charm.
Author: D. Amaury Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Get Book
Book Description
Published in 1915, this ethnography of the Iboibo, a Nigerian tribe, focuses on the ritual life of women. A fascinating and often depressing look into the lives of the women of that era and place.
Author: Boniface I. Obichere
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135781079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Get Book
Book Description
First Published in 1982. Nigerians on the whole have a strong sense of history and a rich heritage of historical traditions. This collection of essays is a contribution to the total effort of the study of the history of Southern Nigeria.
Author: J. C. Anene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521104586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book
Book Description
Southern Nigeria in Transition fills a gap in the literature of Nigerian history. Professor Anene now offers his material in a book which will become a standard text in many universities in Africa and elsewhere. The book begins by examining the traditional political structure of the peoples of Southern Nigeria. In 1885 Britain secured international recognition of her 'freedom of action' on the Lower Niger and in the Oil Rivers. The process through which Britain imposed a new political order is clearly analysed. Other changes in the social and economic life of the people resulting both from the new order and also from missionary enterprises are considered. The beginning of the process of amalgamation which culminated in the emergence of a politico-territorial unit called Nigeria are described. Professor Anene develops his narrative well and a sense of movement is maintained throughout the work. Non-Nigerian writers have been apt to refer to the inhabitants of Southern Nigeria as a mere conglomeration of groups whose associations before the advent of the British were artificial. Professor Anene demonstrates the extent to which this traditional view ignores the cultural and other unities which were pervasive.
Author: Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146551709X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Get Book
Book Description
MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of "the blameless Hyperboreans." Mr. Dayrell's "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. I may be permitted to offer some running notes and comments on this mass of African curiosities from the crowded lumber-room of the native mind. I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter.--The story, like the tales of the dark native tribes of Australia, rises from that state of fancy by which man draws (at least for purposes of fiction) no line between himself and the lower animals. Why should not the fair heroine, Adet, daughter of the tortoise, be the daughter of human parents? The tale would be none the less interesting, and a good deal more credible to the mature intelligence. But the ancient fashion of animal parentage is presented. It may have originated, like the stories of the Australians, at a time when men were totemists, when every person had a bestial or vegetable "family-name," and when, to account for these hereditary names, stories of descent from a supernatural, bestial, primeval race were invented. In the fables of the world, speaking animals, human in all but outward aspect, are the characters. The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to sop and La Fontaine. There could be no such fashion if fables had originated among civilised human beings. The polity of the people who tell this story seems to be despotic. The king makes a law that any girl prettier than the prince's fifty wives shall be put to death, with her parents. Who is to be the Paris, and give the fatal apple to the most fair? Obviously the prince is the Paris. He falls in love with Miss Tortoise, guided to her as he is by the bird who is "entranced with her beauty." In this tribe, as in Homer's time, the lover offers a bride-price to the father of the girl. In Homer cattle are the current medium; in Nigeria pieces of cloth and brass rods are (or were) the currency. Observe the queen's interest in an affair of true love. Though she knows that her son's life is endangered by his honourable passion, she adds to the bride-price out of her privy purse. It is "a long courting"; four years pass, while pretty Adet is "ower young to marry yet." The king is very angry when the news of this breach of the royal marriage Act first comes to his ears. He summons the whole of his subjects, his throne, a stone, is set out in the market-place, and Adet is brought before him. He sees and is conquered.
