Igbo Festivals: Some Aspects of Ritual Among the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Igbo Festivals: Some Aspects of Ritual Among the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/061
Creator(s): Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu
Site Location(s): Subject - Nigeria, Africa( 10, 8 )
Date(s): 1976
Size and medium: 160 unbound typed leaves; 12 b/w photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409957
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. study in two sections. The first includes an introduction to the Igbo society of Eastern Nigeria, emphasising the Igbo economy, political organisations, belief system and other aspects of Igbo cultural pattern. This also includes a classification of Igbo festivals, and a description of a number of calendar, cyclic and rite of passage festivals. Section Two contains chapters on the structure and function of Igbo festivals, a conclusion and appendices containing summaries of some festivals, sample questionnaire and interview sheets used in the field.
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