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Title: | Ethnography and administration: a study of anglo-Tiv 'working misunderstanding' |
Author: | Dorward, D.C. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 457-477 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonial conquest Tiv |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/180671 |
Abstract: | Colonialism in Nigeria, the extension of British economic and political control over the indigenous population and polities, embodied as a concomitant aspect ideological justifications based on racial and cultural differences. With the establishment of colonial rule, this ideology became the dominant system of values, acceptance of which by the governed led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the cultures of paternalism and subservience. Moreover, such symbiosis involved numerous 'working misunderstandings', arising from conceptual models which had proven meaningful in one situation being applied under quite different circumstances. This article examines the conceptual models which influenced European perception of Tiv society, the consequent 'working misunderstanding' which underlay the symbiotic relationship between government and a society subject to its jurisdiction but which had its own particular traditions, and the changes which appear to have occurred in Tiv values, institutions, and traditions in response to new situations. Notes, Summary. |