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| Title: | Visualizing the Body: Photographic Clues and the Cultural Fluidity of Mbopo Institution, 1914-2014 |
| Author: | Udo, Nsima Stanislaus |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Issue: | 78 |
| Pages: | 112 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African Studies Collection (ISSN 1876-0198) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | African Studies Centre |
| ISBN: | 9789054481881 |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | girls' initiation women rituals |
| External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3204580 |
| Abstract: | This book is based on the author's master's thesis 'Visualizing the body: Photographic clues and the cultural Fluidity of Mbopo Institution 1914-2014', winner of the 2019 Africa Thesis Award. This study examines the practice of mbopo ritual - a cultural rite of passage for nubile women among the Ibibio/Efik people. |