Custom And Politics In Urban Africa. A Study Of Hausa Migrants In Yoruba Towns

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of California Press
Publisher Place: Berkeley
Publisher Year: 1971
Edition: First Edition

Description: 252 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. In This Discussion Of Contemporary Ethnic Politics Within An Urban Setting In The Western Region Of Nigeria.Mr Cohen Combines An Analysis Of Social Relationships, Microhistory, And Individual Biography In A Single Conceptual Model.

Publishers Description: Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of Nigeria), Custom and Politics in Urban Africa looks at how ethnic groups use elements of tradition in jostling for power and privilege in new urban situations. This is a landmark work in urban anthropology and provides a comparative framework for studying political processes in African societies.

ISBN: 0520018362