The Serkawa of Yauri: Class, Status or Party?

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Title:	The Serkawa of Yauri: Class, Status or Party?
Author:	Salamone, Frank A.
Year:	1975
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	18
Issue:	1
Period:	April
Pages:	88-101
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Bozo social structure Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/523711
Abstract:	The Serkwa, or Sarkawa, of Yauri Division, Northwestern State, Nogeria, professional fishermen, provide an excellent opportunity for analyzing the intrrelationships of the concepts of three theoreticians: FrederikBarth, Ward Goodenought, and Max Weber. The major theoratical problem examained in this paper is that of the interrelationship of the concepts of class, status, and party and their relationship to that of ethnicity. Finally, ethnicity as a mode of idntity is examined. The primary objectives of this study are: 1. to exanine the consequences of ecology on identity and presentation of self; 2. to assess the interrelationship of Weber's concepts of class., status, and party in a situation of change; 3. to suggest that these are various modes of the same phenomenon; 4.to combine the insights of Barth's optative approach to ethnicity with that of Weber; 5. to analyze the political uses of ethnicity in a multi-ethnic situation; 6. to apply Goodenough's reformulation of status and role theory to ethnic groups. Ref.