Marriage in Human Society
... Abisi had only six clans, and so an Abisi woman “can have one and only one husband each”. Since only two of the clans were exogamous there were two possible outcomes for women's marriages: 1. 2. a woman belonging to an exogamous clan ...
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective
... Abisi The Abisi number around 3,300 ( Chalifoux , 1980 ) and are divided into six clans . A woman cannot have more than one husband per clan . Typically a young woman is married to three men on the same day , but she will live with them ...
Pagan Peoples of the Central Area of Northern Nigeria
... Abisi . Though Meek calls Abisi a single exogamous group , he clearly means to except Abisi - Piti : his statement that a section of this group is located at Srubu is probably erroneous , and may be related to the fact that the people ...
Development and Decline
... Abisi were on the marshland of the Zaria Hausa - Fulani Emirate , and they suffered from the expansion of this emirate after the 1804 jihad ( holy war ) . Relations with ... Abisi ; the Abisi prefer not to 76 Development and Decline.
Women with Many Husbands
... Abisi ( PITI ) , Nigeria1 JEAN - JACQUES CHALIFOUX * The Abisi , numbering around 3,300 people today , live on the northwestern edge of the Jos Plateau and farm nearby parts of the Zaria Plain below . Although they form a distinctive ...
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
... Abisi . Eveen crouched atop a ledge on the Tomb of the Patriarchs — a blockish construction of taupe stone that housed the remains of the city's foremost ruling families . Statues of the first twelve patriarchs were carved into its ...
Canadian Journal of African Studies
... Abisi , de mariages par échange direct de soeurs qui ne doit pas être suivi du mariage des cousins croisés . Cette forme d'union est très répandue sur le plateau puisque environ vingt petites populations s'y adonneraient . Le cas où il ...
Possessor of All
... Abisi to Waset, including his personal scribe, but enough remained to allow a seamless transfer of power. Abisi was interested in the identity of his successor as a son of Sobekhotep by his wife Hetepet, and his relationship to his ...
Peoples of the Plateau Area of Northern Nigeria
... Abisi , a term which Meek tentatively translates " the men . " 3 As Meek points out , Abisi is a clan - name among the Janji and the Kurama , a fact which suggests that these several groups may have been originally of the same stock ...
The Western Canadian Anthropologist
... Abisi ( Piti ) et les Rukuba , Nigéria . Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 10 ( 1 ) : 107-124 . 1977 Polyandrie et Organisation Économique et Sociale des Abisi ( Piti ) du Nigéria . Montréal : These de doctorat en anthropologie à l ...
Ethnology
... Abisi ( Piti ) people , who number 3,300 and call this hunt Mambo . The village of Kasakuk is said to have been Abisi before joining the Rukuba and provides the reason for a joint hunt . In spite of the date being discussed and known ...
Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria
... Abisi , is also the name by which the neighbouring Piti tribe describes itself , and it may be that both the Janji and Kurama Abisi are of Piti origin . The title " Abisi " appears to mean The Men " , a common description both for ...
Studies in the History, Politics, and Cultures of Southern Kaduna Peoples Groups
... Abisi from Pitti because the Pitti call themselves Abisi ( singular Bisi ) , the Hausa people call them Kurama . Since both the Kano and Borno people are playmates " abokan wasa " or " hartiriga " in Kurama language to the Akurmi people ...
Ethnographic Survey of Africa
... Abisi clan ) . The splitting of local exogamous totemic clans , with migrations incident to the cessation of inter - tribal warfare and the adoption of shifting cultivation in a relatively sparsely populated area , might be calculated ...
The Nigerian Field
... Abisi Abisi Kpuini Kpuini Abisi Abisi Asa Abasaku The Loom . OFI . 6 . Igi ofi about 10 feet high- 9 into ground / Feb 1934 ILORIN WEAVING 2 . 8 . 4 . Fixing of lower beam 184 THE NIGERIAN FIELD.
Pacific Linguistics
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Pagan Peoples of the Central Area of Northern Nigeria
... Abisi clan ) . The splitting of local exogamous totemic clans , with migrations incident to the cessation of inter - tribal warfare and the adoption of shifting cultivation in a relatively sparsely populated area , might be calculated ...
Ethnographic Survey of Africa
... Abisi clan ) . The splitting of local exogamous totemic clans , with migrations incident to the cessation of inter - tribal warfare and the adoption of shifting cultivation in a relatively sparsely populated area , might be calculated ...