'Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan'

Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Audrey Richards Prize WinnerThis book is a study of chieftaincy and political culture in Ibadan, the most populous city in what was Britain's largest West African colony, Nigeria. Examining the period between 1829 and 1939, it shows how and why the processesthrough which Ibadan was made into a civic community shifted from the battlefield to a discursive field. Concentrating on the early-to-mid colonial period, the book's focus on political discourse encompasses Ibadan's pre-colonialpast, because forms of social action and political argument were always legitimated in terms of past precedents. This book offers a contribution to the social and cultural history of British colonial administration in Africa, aswell as to the field of urban history. It should be of interest to anthropologists and social scientists for its innovative approach to the study of political culture.North America: Ohio U Press; Nigeria: HEBN

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Utgivningsdatum2003-06-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt302 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWestern African Studies
Antal sidor256
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9780852554548

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The civic Ibadan and the war of the pen; "a composite band of marauders" - urban settlement and chieftaincy; "Ibadan makes history" - civil disorder, miltiarism and the Yoruba past; "a greater punishment than death" - warrior chiefs and colonial rule, 1898-1907; "a great blot" - indirect rule, native gentlemen and renowned capitalists; "breeding civic pride" - progressive politics and pageantry; "the cloth of field of gold" - material cultures and civil power; "weighty words" - the material forms of civic discourse in colonial Ibadan; appendix 1 - chieftaincy titles in Ibadan history; appendix 2 - senior title-holders in the bale and balogun lines, 1902-14.