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Long-Dead Sociologists and African History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

J. D. Y. Peel
J. D. Y. Peel
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Discussion: Yoruba Poverty
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The Journal of African History , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , November 1991 , pp. 501 - 506
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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References

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of the commonest themes of missionary argument: that the material sacrifices of Yoruba traditional religion are to be superseded by the all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ and the self-sacrifices of the Christian life.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’.

9 Iliffe, ‘Poverty’, 56–7.Google Scholar

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.

17 As Iliffe, , ‘Poverty’, 52.Google Scholar