ISBN:
9780415227032
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (199 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Igbo Life and Thought
DDC:
305.48/896332
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps, plates and tables; Notes on orthography; Biographical Note; 1 Introducing Igbo women; 2 Ibi: a traditional community; Social organization and patterns of settlement; Relations with neighbouring groups; A modem Catholic parish structure; 3 Political organization in Ibi; Transportation, communication and economy; Notions of wealth; History and identity; 4 Igbo women: socio-political and religious status; The economic status of Igbo women; The political status of Igbo women; The social status of Igbo women
Description / Table of Contents:
The religious or ritual status of Igbo womenGender relations; 5 Igbo cosmology; The Igbo cosmos; Igbo views of the physical universe; Igbo categories of ontological beings; Igbo notions of good and evil; 6 The Igbo idea of person; The material dimension of person; The non-material dimension of the person; The person as a status-oriented being; 7 Kinship relations and the position of the woman; Discussion of kinship categories; Extended Igbo kin relations: nwanne; Patterns of kin relationships; Local and kinship groupings and settlement; Wider kinship grouping - the lineage
Description / Table of Contents:
Igbo ideology of lineage and authority8 Traditional marriage rites; Traditional or 'customary' notions of marriage; The process of marrying a wife; 9 Married life: moral relations; Initiatory phase in marriage; Exploratory phases for the newly married; Igbo traditional notions of work; Prescribed wifely duties towards the husband; Traditional pregnancy rites; Traditional childbirth rites; 10 Widowhood; Igbo traditional funeral rites: concept and practice; Sequence of Igbo funeral rites; The Igbo concept and practice of widowhood; Conclusions; 11 Concluding remarks
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix: funeral rites of an Igbo Christian wife of a chiefBibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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