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This collection of R. E. Bradburys papers, originally published in 1973 includes edited sections of his (then hitherto) unpublished thesis on the Benin village in Western Nigeria. The book is arranged in 3 parts: historical and political studies of the kingdom of Benin; Benin village organization and religion and art. An introduction by Peter Morton-Williams traces bradburys development as an interpreter of the culture, society and art of Benin, beginning with his first studies in the filed and culminating in the important anthropological and historical essays.

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AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY Volume 10 BENIN STUDIES - photo 1
AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES
OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Volume 10
BENIN STUDIES

BENIN STUDIES
R. E. BRADBURY
First published in 1973 by Oxford University Press for the International - photo 2
First published in 1973 by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute.
This edition first published in 2018
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1973 International African Institute
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ISBN: 978-0-8153-8713-8 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-48813-9 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-49208-0 (Volume 10) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-03126-4 (Volume 10) (ebk)
Publishers Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.
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The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace.
Benin Studies
R.E. BRADBURY
Edited,
with an Introduction, by
PETER MORTON-WILLIAMS
Foreword by DARYLL FORDE
Published for the
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE
by the
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON NEW YORK IBADAN
1973
Contents
Oxford University Press, Ely House, London, W.l.
Glasgow New York Toronto Melbourne Wellington
Cape Town Ibadan Nairobi Dar Es Salaam Addis Ababa
Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Lahore Dacca
Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo
ISBN 0 19 724192 1
International African Institute, 1973
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the International African Institute
Set by Gavin Martin Limited, London England.
Printed in Great Britain by
The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton
IEzomos bronze ikegobo or altar of the Hand Height c. 16 inches. Photograph: W.B. Fagg, 1958
IIThe late Ezomo Omoruyi with his son, late Ezomo Asemwota (since deceased) and his collection of bronzes; in front, Ezomo Ehenuas iron war gong with a modern replica; at right on bench, a bronze plaque supposed to date from Ehenuas time Photograph: W.B. Fagg, 1958
III(a)Further views of Ezomos ikegobo
Photographs W.B. Fagg, 1958
(b)Terracotta ikegobo of a smith, in the British Museum
Wellcome Collection. Height 9 inches.
Photograph: W.B. Fagg, 1958
IV(a)Wooden ikegobo of type A belonging to a carver
Height c. 4 inches.
Photograph: R.E. Bradbury
(b)Two wooden ikegobo of type B from the house of the Onogie of Obazagbon
Photograph: R.E. Bradbury
Genealogy of the early Obas according to Egharevba
The Benin dynasty (from 1700)
The principal orders of chieftaincy in Ovnramwns reign
Proliferation of ancestor-worshipping groups
Line of Enigie and Edayi at Ekho village
IdunbhEka, the Onogies ward at Ekho, showing kinship links between household heads
IdunbhOgo ward at Ekho, showing kinship links between household heads
Movement of yams in the igibizu rite at Ugboko
Key to figures on vertical and horizontal surfaces of Ezomos ikegobo
Map: The kingdom of Benin
The original sources of the papers reprinted in this book by kind permission of the editors and publishers concerned are as follows:
The historical uses of comparative ethnography with special reference to Benin and the Yoruba, in J. Vansina, R. Mauny and L.V. Thomas (eds.) The Historian in Tropical Africa. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. 1964, pp. 14564.
Chronological problems in the study of Benin history, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 1, 4, 1959, pp. 26387.
Continuities and discontinuities in pre-colonial and colonial Benin politics (18971951), in I.M. Lewis (ed.) History and Social Anthropology. London: Tavistock Publications, 1968, pp. 193252.
Patrimonialism and gerontocracy in Benin political culture, in M. Douglas and P.M. Kaberry (eds.) Man in Africa. London: Tavistock Publications, 1969, pp. 1736.
The kingdom of Benin, in D. Forde and P.M. Kaberry (eds.) West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1967, pp. 135.
Father and senior son in Edo mortuary ritual, in M. Fortes and G. Dieterlen (eds.) African Systems of Thought. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1965, pp. 96121.
Fathers, elders, and ghosts in Edo religion, in M. Banton (ed.) Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion. London: Tavistock Publications, 1966, pp. 12753.
Ezomos ikegobo and the Benin cult of the hand, Man, LXI, 165, 1961, pp. 12938.
Ehi: three stories from Benin, Od, No. 8, October 1960, pp. 4048.
Our thanks are due to the Association of Social Anthropologists for a grant from the Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund towards the printing costs of the plates and the re-drawing of some of the figures. We are also grateful to Mr. W.B. Fagg of the British Museum for supplying prints of the photographs taken by himself and Dr. Bradbury.
When R.E. Bradbury came up to University College London in 1947, he developed so strong an interest in Anthropology, initially his subsidiary field of study, that he transferred to Honours in the subject, joining a group of very able students in the recently established department, among whom there was lively debate and no little emulation. Brads thoughtful and lucid seminar papers and his quiet but always cogent comments in discussion commanded everyones respect. He took a First Class Degree and was able to embark on his first research with the award of a Horniman field studentship in 19512.
Bradbury greatly welcomed the suggestion that he should undertake a study of the Kingdom of Benin among the Edo-speaking peoples of southern Nigeria on which little had been written of ethnographic value since the studies of Ling Roth and Northcote Thomas early in the century after the bronzes and ivories of Benin art first became widely known in Europe following the military expedition. Jacob Egharevba had published the first of his valuable accounts of Benin oral traditions and there were some general indications and challenging clues in unpublished government reports, but the complex political and ritual organization of the Benin Kingdom had not been studied. There were only fragmentary indications of the roles of offices and associations in the life of the palace and the capital and even less was known about social organization and cults of the villages or their modes of economic and political integration in the kingdom.
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