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Title: CUSTOM AND POLITICS IN URBAN AFRICA
A STUDY OF HAUSA MIGRANTS IN YORUBA TOWNS
By: Abner Cohen, Elizabeth Colson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0415320097
ISBN 13: 9780415320092
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 20 November, 2003
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies
Pages: 280
Description: Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 60s among the Hausa migrants, this is a landmark work in urban anthropology and provides a comparative framework for studying political processes in African societies.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: map
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
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