Boyhood Rituals in an African Society: An Interpretation

by Simon Ottenberg

This is an anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages called Afikpo, in souteastern Nigeria. About half of the book is taken up with the description and analysis of adolescent initiation rites, providing a close and detailed view of rituals that for the most part have only been touched upon in literature. The work makes use of psychoanalytic theory, with a logic that is grounded in data, blended with traditional cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295965754
• ISBN13: 9780295965758
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.