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  title info:
    title: Culture, precepts, and social change in southeastern Nigeria
    sub title: understanding the Igbo
  name:
    name part: Nwauwa, Apollos O. (Apollos Okwuchi)
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book examines the social, cultural, economic, political and aesthetic cultural practices that make the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria unique. The essays discuss various aspects of the Igbo experience from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives.
  table of contents: Introduction / Apollos O. Nwauwa and Ogechi E. Anyanwu -- Part I: Religious Diversity and Cultural Values in Igboland -- Pentecostalism, Miracle and 'Prosperity' Gospel / Ojiako Victoria Uloma -- Money God-Talk: Reading Proverbs 30:7-9 in a Milieu of Opulence Religiosity / Caroline N. Mbonu -- Deities in Indigenous Religion: A Critical Inquiry into the Nature and the Divinity of the Devil / Anselm C. Onuorah -- Agbara Na Mmuo as Agents of Development in Indigenous Cosmology / George Ogbonna Mbarah -- Harnessing Igbo Traditional and Biblical Environmental Ethics to Confront Ecological Challenges / Ernest O. Anyacho -- Part II: Women and Gender Issues in Contemporary Igbo Society -- Masquerade and Women Spectatorship in Akpọha-Afikpo: The Demystified Affront / Mazi Ben Orji -- Contributions of Women in Governance and Community Development: A Case Study of Awka-Etiti in Idemili South Local Government of Anambra State / Nkiru Christiana Ohia and Uchenna Mariestella Nzewi -- Inter-Female Hostility as a Cultural Behavior in Freud's Theory of Aggression / Ujubonu J. Okide -- Igbo Marriage Procedure: A Panacea to Frequent Divorce and Broken Homes / Benedict N. Igbokwe -- Sexism in Lyrics: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Flavour's 'Nwa Baby (Ashawo Remix)' and 'Ada Ada' / Chiamaka Ngozi Oyeka -- Part III: Exploring Igbo Worldview through Literature -- Chinua Achebe's Historical Novels and Igbo Value System Today: A Dialectical Discourse / Sheila I. Njemanze -- The Significance of Cosmic Objects in Traditional Burial Rites as Represented in African Literature / Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama, Albi-Oparaocha, and Florence Chiji -- Novel and Film: Tales of the Python in Two Media and Four Narratives / Okwuchukwu Otti -- Loan Words in Igbo Drama Texts: Implications for an Endangered Language / Adaora Anyachebelu -- Inscribing Women in Literary Canon: Agenda for Igbo Women Novelists / Okafor Ebele Eucharia
  note: edited by Apollos O. Nwauwa and Ogechi E. Anyanwu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-nr---
  subject:
    topic: Igbo (African people)
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Igbo (African people)
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Igbo (African people)
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Religion
  classification: DT515.45.I33 C85 2020
  classification: 305.896332
  identifier: 9781498589680
  identifier: 1498589685
  identifier: 9781498589697
  identifier: 2019039978
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190905
    record change date: 20200420142005.0
    record identifier: in00004130651