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title:The Igbo-Igala Borderland; : Religion & Social Control in Indigenous African Colonialism
author:Shelton, Austin J.
publisher:State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin:0873950828
print isbn13:9780873950824
ebook isbn13:9780585167909
language:English
subjectIgbo (African people)--Religion, Igala (African people)--Religion, Social control.
publication date:1971
lcc:GN470.S52eb
ddc:301.15/4
subject:Igbo (African people)--Religion, Igala (African people)--Religion, Social control.
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The Igbo-Igala Borderland
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MAP I Igala and Nsukka Districts Page iii The Igbo-Igala - photo 2
MAP I.
Igala and Nsukka Districts
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The Igbo-Igala
Borderland
Religion & Social Control in
Indigenous African Colonialism
AUSTIN J. SHELTON
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
ALBANY 1971
Page iv
Published by State University of New York Press
Thurlow Terrace, Albany, New York 12201
1971 by State University of New York
All rights reserved
ISBN 0873950828 (clothbound)
ISBN 0873951824 (microfiche)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 70141493
Designer: Richard Hendel
Printed in the United States of America
Page v
This book is dedicated to my friends and teachers,
Ugwuja Attama and Ugwu Nnadi Eze,
and to all my borderland friends alive and dead
Page vii
CONTENTS
Introduction
xi
One: Background: History & Social Structures
1. The Nsukka-Igala Borderland
3
Picture 3
The Igbo
4
Picture 4
The Umunri
11
Picture 5
The Igala
17
2. Onojo Ogboni, the Conquest of Nsukka, and Later Borderland History
19
3. Nsukka Igbo Temporal, Familial, and Spatial Organization
28
Picture 6
Time
30
Picture 7
The Family
32
Picture 8
The Household and Affinity
39
Picture 9
The Village and Village-Group
43
Two: Nsukka Religion
4. Sacred Precincts
57
5. Nsukka Family and Household Religion: Gods and Ancestors
82
Picture 10
Chi and the High God
83
Picture 11
Man and the Ancestors
91
Picture 12
Arua and Ancestral Force
99
6. Nsukka Village Religion: Alusi
123
Picture 13
Special Alusi in the Nsukka Borderland
128
Picture 14
Alusi Powers and Activities
133
Picture 15
Continuing Positive Functions of Alusi
139
Picture 16
Worship of Alusi
150

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