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Igbo in the Atlantic World : African Origins and Diasporic Destinations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253022578
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Igbo in the Atlantic WorldDDC classification:
  • 305.896332
LOC classification:
  • DT515.45.I33.I4235 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- IGBO IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Igbo Institutions and Customs as Baseline -- 2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword -- 3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve Them -- 4. Gender Relations in Nineteenthand Early Twentieth-Century Igbo Society -- Part II The Igbo in the African Diaspora: The Mechanics and Patterns of Migrations, Settlements, and Demographics -- 5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight -- 6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview -- 7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Marie -- 8. "A Great Many Boys and Girls": Igbo Youth in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808 -- 9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth-Century Niger Delta -- 10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why? -- 11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, ca. 1650-1850 -- 12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade -- Part III Cultural Crosscurrents: Dimensions of the Igbo Experience in the Atlantic World -- 13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World Formations -- 14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity -- 15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa: What's in a Name? -- 16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent -- 17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean -- 18. The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in Reverse and Its Implications for the Development of Christianity and Education in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria, 1895-1925 -- 19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.
20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World -- 21. ỌSỌNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.
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Cover -- IGBO IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Igbo Institutions and Customs as Baseline -- 2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword -- 3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve Them -- 4. Gender Relations in Nineteenthand Early Twentieth-Century Igbo Society -- Part II The Igbo in the African Diaspora: The Mechanics and Patterns of Migrations, Settlements, and Demographics -- 5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight -- 6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview -- 7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Marie -- 8. "A Great Many Boys and Girls": Igbo Youth in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808 -- 9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth-Century Niger Delta -- 10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why? -- 11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, ca. 1650-1850 -- 12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade -- Part III Cultural Crosscurrents: Dimensions of the Igbo Experience in the Atlantic World -- 13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World Formations -- 14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity -- 15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa: What's in a Name? -- 16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent -- 17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean -- 18. The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in Reverse and Its Implications for the Development of Christianity and Education in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria, 1895-1925 -- 19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.

20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World -- 21. ỌSỌNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.

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