{"product_id":"igbo-in-the-atlantic-world-9780253022455","title":"Igbo in the Atlantic World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Makes a significant contribution to the sociology and historiography of the Igbo society, by documenting not only the cultural genealology, heterogeneity and dialects of this society but also their contributions to diasporic cultural formation, identity, and transmutation. This is probably the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on diverse aspects of Igbo society and culture.\" -Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations \u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction \u003cbr\u003eRaphael Chijioke Njoku and Toyin Falola \u003cbr\u003eSECTION I: IGBO INSTITUTIONS AND CUSTOMS AS BASELINE\u003cbr\u003e2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword \u003cbr\u003eHannah Chukwu\u003cbr\u003e3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve Them\u003cbr\u003eNwando Achebe \u003cbr\u003e4. Gender Relations in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Igbo Society \u003cbr\u003eGloria Chuku\u003cbr\u003eSECTION II: THE IGBO IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: THE MECHANICS AND PATTERNS OF MIGRATIONS, SETTLEMENTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS\u003cbr\u003e5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight \u003cbr\u003eA. E. Afigbo \u003cbr\u003e6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview \u003cbr\u003eKenneth Morgan\u003cbr\u003e7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Maria \u003cbr\u003eJohn Thornton\u003cbr\u003e8. 'A Great Many Boys and Girls': Igbo Children in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808\u003cbr\u003eAudra A. Diptee\u003cbr\u003e9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth Century Niger Delta Raphael Chijioke Njoku\u003cbr\u003e10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why?\u003cbr\u003eGwendolyn Mildo Hall \u003cbr\u003e11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, c. 1650-1850 \u003cbr\u003ePaul E. Lovejoy\u003cbr\u003e12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade \u003cbr\u003eDouglas B. Chambers\u003cbr\u003eSECTION III: CULTURAL CROSSCURRENTS: DIMENSIONS OF THE IGBO EXPERIENCE IN THE ATHLANTIC WORLD\u003cbr\u003e13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World \u003cbr\u003eChima J. Korieh \u003cbr\u003e14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity \u003cbr\u003eVincent Carretta \u003cbr\u003e15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa – What's in a Name? \u003cbr\u003ePaul E. Lovejoy\u003cbr\u003e16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent \u003cbr\u003eMaureen Warner-Lewis\u003cbr\u003e17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean \u003cbr\u003eRobert W. Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e18. The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in Reverse and its Implications for the Development of Christianity and Education in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria: 1895-1925 \u003cbr\u003eWaibinte E. Wariboko\u003cbr\u003e19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference \u003cbr\u003eRaphael Chijioke Njoku\u003cbr\u003e20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World \u003cbr\u003eSylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie\u003cbr\u003e21. SNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power \u003cbr\u003eOgbu U. Kalu\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography \u003cbr\u003eNotes on Authors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400558551383,"sku":"9780253022455","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253022455.jpg?v=1730470978","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/igbo-in-the-atlantic-world-9780253022455","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}