Culture, Precepts, and Social Change in Southeastern Nigeria (eBook, PDF)

Understanding the Igbo
Redaktion: Nwauwa, Apollos O.; Anyanwu, Ogechi E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978791534
• Artikelnr.: 74841804

Autorenporträt

Apollos O. Nwauwa is professor of history and Africana studies at Bowling Green State University. Ogechi E. Anyanwu is professor of history and African studies at Eastern Kentucky University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Apollos O. Nwauwa and Ogechi E. Anyanwu PART I: Religious
Diversity and Cultural Values in Igboland Chapter 1: Pentecostalism,
Miracle and 'Prosperity' Gospel Ojiako Victoria Uloma Chapter 2: Money
God-Talk: Reading Proverbs 30:7-9 in a Milieu of Opulence Religiosity
Caroline N. Mbonu Chapter 3: Deities in Indigenous Religion: A Critical
Inquiry into the Nature and the Divinity of the Devil Anselm C. Onuorah
Chapter 4: Agbara Na Mmuo as Agents of Development in Indigenous Cosmology
George Ogbonna Mbarah Chapter 5: Harnessing Igbo Traditional and Biblical
Environmental Ethics to Confront Ecological Challenges Ernest O. Anyacho
PART II: Women and Gender Issues in Contemporary Igbo Society Chapter 6:
Masquerade and Women Spectatorship in Akp¿ha-Afikpo: The Demystified
Affront Mazi Ben Orji Chapter 7: Contributions of Women in Governance and
Community Development: A Case Study of Awka-Etiti in Idemili South Local
Government of Anambra State Nkiru Christiana Ohia and Uchenna Mariestella
Nzewi Chapter 8: Inter-Female Hostility as a Cultural Behavior in Freud's
Theory of Aggression Ujubonu J. Okide Chapter 9: Igbo Marriage Procedure: A
Panacea to Frequent Divorce and Broken Homes Benedict N. Igbokwe Chapter
10: Sexism in Lyrics: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Flavour's 'Nwa Baby
(Ashawo Remix)' and 'Ada Ada' Chiamaka Ngozi Oyeka PART III: Exploring Igbo
Worldview through Literature Chapter 11: Chinua Achebe's Historical Novels
and Igbo Value System Today: A Dialectical Discourse Sheila I. Njemanze
Chapter 12: The Significance of Cosmic Objects in Traditional Burial Rites
as Represented in African Literature Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama,
Albi-Oparaocha, and Florence Chiji Chapter 13: Novel and Film: Tales of the
Python in Two Media and Four Narratives Okwuchukwu Otti Chapter 14: Loan
Words in Igbo Drama Texts: Implications for an Endangered Language Adaora
Anyachebelu Chapter 15: Inscribing Women in Literary Canon: Agenda for Igbo
Women Novelists Okafor Ebele Eucharia