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The Isoko Tribe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Extract

The Isoko country in the north-western corner of the Niger Delta, Southern Nigeria, is a virgin field for anthropologists. Beyond one or two brief and usually inaccurate references in accounts of the Delta, and a Government Intelligence Report, nothing has been collected about or written upon the Isoko people. The following notes were collected by me during a first tour of eighteen months, purely out of personal interest and curiosity, and in my spare time, without any previous training in anthropology.

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Research Article
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Copyright © International African Institute 1934

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page 164 note 1 Three months in some clans.

page 168 note 1 I have only been able to trace one instance of a child born of an uncircumcised woman being allowed to live: this child is only five years old, and one cannot say what penalties it will suffer yet.