Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People
Description
Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People is a book by D. Amaury Talbot, first published in 1915. It presents a detailed, early-20th-century ethnographic account of the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria, written from the perspective of a woman observer. The text concentrates on the ritual life and social customs of Ibibio women — birth, childhood, female initiation and rites, marriage practices, craftwork and funerary observances — and records ceremonies, songs and material culture that the author encountered during her time in the Eket district.
Talbot’s work sits within colonial-era African ethnography and is valuable to students of cultural anthropology and African studies for its descriptive richness and early documentation of Ibibio women’s ritual practice. Readers should note, however, that the book reflects the attitudes and terminologies of its time: its observations are useful as historical ethnography and primary source material, but modern readers will likely want to read it alongside contemporary scholarship that places Ibibio culture in updated context.
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- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, AZW3
- Page Count (PDF)
- 107
- Word Count
- 66,074
- Illustrations
- No
- Footnotes
- 48
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