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African art
African art art created by the peoples south of the Sahara. The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies. The decorative arts, especially in textiles and in the ornamentation of everyday tools, were a vital art in nearly all African culture... Read more
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially Federal Republic of Nigeria, republic (2006 provisional pop. 140,003,542), 356,667 sq mi (923,768 sq km), W Africa. It borders on the Gulf of Guinea (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean) in the south, on Benin in the west, on Niger in the northwest and north, on Chad in the northeast, ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Ibibio"

Ibibio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Ibibio ETHNONYMS: none Orientation Identification. The name "Ibibio" identifies the largest subdivision of people living...linguistic descriptions. Like their Igbo neighbors, the Ibibio people originally shared no common term that identified...
Nigeria
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...Other smaller groups include the Fulani, Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, and Edo. Prior to their conquest by Europeans, these...the Ijaw with 10 percent, the Kanuri with 4 percent, the Ibibio with 3.5 percent, and the Tiv with 2.5 percent. Major...
African art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...against floral backgrounds. Abundant descriptive detail and sharp, precise lines are characteristic of Benin art. The Igbo, Ibibio, Ekoi, and Ijaw of SE Nigeria carved wooden masks for use in their rites and secret societies. Ekoi masks were modeled after...
Nigerian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...however, Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa represent the principal languages, joined by Kanuri, Fulani, Nupe, Tiv, Edo, Ijaw and Ibibio. Like many other African countries, the distribution of religion can be broken down into three major areas: Christians...
African Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...ethnic groups including Yoruba, Wolof, Mandingo, Hausa, Asante, Fante, Edo, Fulani, Serer, Luba, Angola, Congo, Ibo, Ibibio, Ijaw, and Sherbro, African Americans have a common origin in Africa and a common struggle against racial oppression. Many...

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Aesthetics: Africa
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...among the Lega and Songye of the Congo and the Igbo, Edo, and Ibibio of Nigeria, among others. External perfection and internal...Sierra Leone and the beauty-beast performances of the Igbo and Ibibio of Nigeria. Most Western knowledge of African aesthetics is...
Equatorial Guinea
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...traditional beliefs 4.6%; atheist 1.4%; Muslim 0.5% Ethnic Groups: Fang 72.0%; Bubi 14.7%;Duala 2.7%;Ibibio 1.3%; Maka 1.3% Languages: Spanish (official); Fang, Bubi, and local languages International Organizations: UN...

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Marriage and lineage segmentation in Ibibioland
Magazine article from: Anthropologica; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...This article discusses the dynamics of Ibibio lineage structure. It presents ethnographic...by the inclusive unit. The paradox of Ibibio marriage involving agnatic kin, which...article concerns itself with two aspects of Ibibio social structure--marriage and lineage...
Traditional healers in the Nigerian health care delivery system and the debate over integrating traditional and scientific medicine
Magazine article from: Anthropological Quarterly; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...them. [Nigeria, traditional healers, Ibibio, integration of traditional and scientific...importance of traditional healers in the Ibibio community of southeast Nigeria in particular...this article. Background At home, in an Ibibio community in southeastern Nigeria, I...
Currency Devaluation and Rank: The Yoruba and Akan Experiences
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Guyer's study focuses on the Igbo and Ibibio, two societies in which ranking was by...subject of money and rank among the Igbo and Ibibio that Jane Guyer presents in Marginal Gains...expansion" (2004:69). Using the Igbo and Ibibio societies of southeastern Nigeria as case...
Masking youth: transformation and transgression in Annang performance.(Report)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...forgiven for thinking that Annang and Ibibio wooden mask carving is not only buoyant...become synonymous with, even iconic of Ibibio and Annang artistic and performative traditions. Annang and Ibibio masking is also a classic theme in ethnographic...
Challenges to rural festivals with the return to democratic rule in southeastern Nigeria.(Emerging Scholarship In African Art)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...people, an amalgam of several Igbo, Ibibio, and Cross River ethnic elements, first...century to fight a war against a group of Ibibio people. They relied on the power of their...areas of origin: two Igbo sections, one Ibibio, and the Akpa, whose origin is on the...
OBITUARY: G. I. Jones
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/27/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...photography. The result, his photographic archive of Ibo and Ibibio masquerades, provides a unique record of a central institution...Foremost among these were the masterly ethnography The Ibo and Ibibio Peoples of Eastern Nigeria (1950), co-written with Daryll...
EVOLUTION AND RELEVANCE OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES IN PRECOLONIAL IGBOLAND
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...writers who erroneously believed that what they called the "great Eboe tribe" included the Ibibio. This innocent misconception explains perhaps why the Ibibio were described as Kwa Iboe, meaning the large cluster of
AFRICANA.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Whole Earth; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Gandhi and, following their example, several more afoxes began to appear at Salvador's Carnival. "Ibibio, ethnic group of NIGERIA The Ibibio primarily live in the Cross River State of southeastern Nigeria. They speak a Niger-Congo language...
The British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...reading, although it would have been even better if it had included more cross-references: We are offered "Ibbiby" but not "Ibibio" (as explained in the relevant endnote), "purrah" but not "Poro," and so on. Of course, published books and pamphlets...
VOICES FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT: SOURCES, METHODS, AND PROBLEMATICS IN THE RECOVERY OF THE AGRARIAN HISTORY OF THE IGBO (SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA)
Magazine article from: History In Africa; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...and latitude 610' N. The region borders the middle belt region of Nigeria to the north, the river Niger to the west, the Ibibio people to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea and Bight of Biafra to the south. Most of the region lies on a plain less than...