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Long-Dead Sociologists and African History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2009
Abstract
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- Discussion: Yoruba Poverty
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1 Iliffe, J., ‘Poverty and transvaluation in nineteenth-century Yorubaland’, J. Afr. Hist., XXXII (1091), above.Google Scholar
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Iliffe, J., ‘Poverty in nineteenth-century Yorubaland’, J. Afr. Hist., XXI (1990), 57Google Scholar; and ‘Poverty and transvaluation’.
5 Goody, J., The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Cambridge, 1986), 43–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6 Without apparently having it in mind, Goody here describes one of the commonest themes of missionary argument: that the material sacrifices of Yoruba traditional religion are to be superseded by the all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ and the self-sacrifices of the Christian life.
7 Iliffe, J., The African Poor: a History (Cambridge, 1987), 13–14. 25–6, 46–7, 54, 96, 111–13.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
8 Iliffe, ‘Poverty and transvaluation’.
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10 Samuel, Johnson, History of the Yorubas (Lagos, 1921), 381.Google Scholar Interestingly, it was Johnson who, in his Journal for 1878, had noted the exceptional case of a warrior's kindness to a stranger referred to by Iliffe (note 9 above).
11 White to Venn, 6 June 1867, CMS (Yoruba Mission) CA 2/O 87.
12 Iliffe, ‘Poverty and transvaluation’.
13 Townsend, Journal, 16 August 1859, CA 2/O 85.
14 Iliffe ‘Poverty and transvaluation’.
15 W. Moore, Journal, 2 October 1862, CA 2/O 70.
16 T. King, Journal, 31 December 1851, CA 2/O 61.
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