Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments List of figures, tables Part I. Anthropological and demographic concerns Chapter 1. Introduction: Paradoxes of progress Chapter 2. Historical and anthropological aspects of population: Centripetal and centrifugal tendencies Chapter 3. Demographic dimensions of Itapa-Ekiti Part II. Bodies, persons, and social relations Chapter 4. Women's bodies, virginity, and marriage Chapter 5. Child-fostering, blood ties, and parenthood Chapter 6. Burial, rebirth, and relations with the dead Part III. Population, development, and the state Chapter 7. Personal hygiene, public sanitation, and western education Chapter 8. Houses, descendants, and land tenure Chapter 9. Counting bodies: Censuses, vital registration, and the creation of Ekiti State Chapter 10: Conclusion: Local development, politics, and two funerals Bibliography Appendices Appendix I. Research methods and materials Appendix II. Important dates in Itapa and Nigerian history Appendix III. Contraception ever used by Itapa-Ekiti women, based on 1992, 1997 surveys Index.