An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction of Traditional Igbo Society

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1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Preface IX
4. PART ONE Archaeology
5. Introduction: Some Formulations on the Prehistory of West Africa 3
6. Processes of Coastal Evolution in West Africa During the Quaternary 17
7. The Status of Guinea Coast Ρaleoarchaeological Knowledge as Seen from Legon 37
8. Excavations at Rim, North-Central Upper Volta: A Paleoecological Study 41
9. The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa 67
10. The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa 91
11. Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa 101
12. Comments on the Advent of Plant Cultivation in West Africa 123
13. History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 139
14. The Sahara as a Center of Ceramic Dispersion in Northern Africa 183
15. Archaeology East of the Niger: A Review of Cultural-Historical Developments 195
16. The Ntereso Culture in Ghana 205
17. The Emergence of Iron Technology in West Africa, with Special Emphasis on the Νok Culture of Nigeria 227
18. The Geographic Distribution of Footed Bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger Region 247
19. Speculations on Functions of Some Prehistoric Archaeological Materials from Sierra Leone 259
20. PART TWO History
21. Introduction: Research Trends in West African History 279
22. Prolegomena to the Study of the Culture History of the Igbo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria 305
23. An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction of Traditional Igbo Society 327
24. Old Akyem and the Origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotoku 1675-1775 349
25. Administration and Trade in the Akwamu Empire, 1681-1730 371
26. The Dynamics and Symbolism of Idoma Kingship 393
27. Gao and the Almoravids: A Hypothesis 413
28. Timbuktu: A Case Study of the Role of Legend in History 431
29. The Julas in Western Sudanese History: Long-Distance Traders and Developers of Resources 455
30. Slave Acquisition and Delivery in Precolonial Hausaland 477
31. Accommodation and Assimilation in the Landlord-Stranger Relationship 495
32. Some Paradoxes of Pacification: Senegal and France in the 1850's and 1860's 515
33. Changing Perspectives on African Resistance Movements and the Case of the Baule Peoples 545
34. Nation Building, Ethnicity, And the New Imperialism: Dilemmas of Political Development in Liberia 563
35. Long-Term Structural Change in the Economy of Central Niger 587
36. Biographical Notes 603
37. Index of Names 611
38. Index of Subjects 621