Baranzan's People (eBook)

An Ethnohistory of the Bajju of the Middle Belt of Nigeria

Carol V. McKinney (Autor)

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2024
288 Seiten
SIL International (Verlag)
978-1-55671-443-6 (ISBN)

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Based on in-depth fieldwork, research, and personal interviews, this comprehensive ethnographic study of the Bajju people of southern Kaduna State in Nigeria covers their origins, history, culture, religious beliefs, and practices. Bajju precolonial political-religious organization, economy, legal system, social organization, and values are described. Also included are chapters on the Hausa-Fulani, the colonial context, the Christian era, and cultural change.

Ethnologists, missiologists, development personnel, and the Bajju themselves will find this a rich resource.

For me as a Bajju scholar, this study is as important as E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s classic study, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937). For that reason, all Bajju sons and daughters must read this important work (from the foreword by Dr. Samuel Waje Kunhiyop).

Baranzan’s People: An Ethnohistory of the Bajju of the Middle Belt of Nigeria is a companion volume to Bajju Christian Conversion in the Middle Belt of Nigeria, published by SIL International® 2019.

Inhalt

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Foreword

Preface

1. The Bajju

2. Baranzan, the Bajju Founding Father

3. The Men's Secret Ancestral Organization and Small-Scale Warfare

4. Bajju Legal System

5. Hunting and Horns

6. Witchcraft -- Nkut

7. Illness and Medicine

8. God and the Spirity World

9. The Life Cycle: Birth, Marriage, and Death

10. Taboos

11. Values

12. Indirect Rule in the Precolonial and Colonial Contexts

13. The Christian Era

14. Bajju Cultural Change

Appendix A: Hausa and Jju Terms for Other Ethnic Groups

Appendix B: Villages in Bajju Sections (Kwai)

Appendix C: Jju Numbers

Appendix D: Jju-English Glossary

References

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2024
• Verlagsort: Dallas
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: British colonialism • Christianity • culture change • Education • missions • Social organization • southern Kaduna State • traditional political organization • Values • Witchcraft
• ISBN-10: 1-55671-443-2 / 1556714432
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55671-443-6 / 9781556714436