ONE WHO SAW a lot of Max Gluckman during the weeks when he was at Yale in April 1963
to deliver his Storrs Lectures can never separate the book from the man as he then showed …

Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal,
nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men …

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto
wood and water and rock.… But once a certain idea of landscape, a myth, a vision …

The end of the colonial era found the majority of Africans still rural people, dependent upon
direct access to land for the bulk of their daily needs. Even so, their ties to the earth had …

The Ngwa region lies in the heart of the Nigerian palm belt. Palm oil is one of the oldest
foodstuffs of the region and has also been an export crop, produced mainly by women, from …

Rights over trees are often distinct from rights over land. Tree tenure consists of a bundle of
rights over trees and their produce which may be held by different people at different times …

This article reviews women's quest to access land, property, and housing by inheritance and
succession from their deceased father's or husband's estate and judicial responses thereto …

Women are traditionally important participants in both the agricultural and forestry
components of agroforestry production. Women are frequently ignored in the design of …

This chapter presents a theoretical framework from which to view gender relations to land,
with particular emphasis on women's productive-reproductive role. It describes the economic …

There has been a significant rise in litigation between oil companies and those affected by
oil operations in Nigerian courts. In the period 1981–86, 24 compensation claims against …