Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 391
Author(s):  
Sandra T. Barnes ◽  
Lisa A. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria

scholarly journals Forest in the Context of Social Change: Traditional Orientation and Forest Mystification in a Nigerian Forest-Reserve Setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 496
Author(s):  
Fausat Motunrayo Ibrahim ◽  
Benson Osikabor ◽  
Bolanle Tawakalitu Olatunji ◽  
Grace Oluwatobi Ogunwale ◽  
Olawale Julius Aluko
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Development Support

This article exposits the mystification of forests among people residing in proximity to a forest reserve in southwestern Nigeria. The theory of material engagement and the ecology of human development support the position that the forest is a classical motivator of traditional culture. Still, socio-cultural change is prevalent. As an element of this change, forest-based social cognition warrants systematic examination in the interest of environmental sustainability. This is because the concurrent conveyance of sustainability-promoting immaterial culture across generations is a component of the pathway to a sustainable future. Moreover, systems theory posits that social events affect each other. Since social change is not solitary but encompassing, forest mystification was examined along with other indicators of traditional orientation including attitude towards―religion, ageing, gender; and cultural enthusiasm. The results indicate that forest mystification is still huge and connected with orientations towards ageing and cultural enthusiasm. This exemplifies the Yorùbá social context’s manifestation of continuity as opposed to change in forest culture; and stands in solidarity with traditional African mentality.

Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions: Ritual and Social Change In Lowland Haiti

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Richman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
North American ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
African Religion ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Counter Narrative

AbstractObservers of Haitian popular religion have defined Vodou as the authentic African religion of Haitian peasants. In fact, Vodou's congregational forms and practices evolved in and around Port-au-Prince during the twentieth century as the local peasantry was being coerced into wage labor. This paper deals with the incorporation of these ritual innovations in a particular hamlet in Léogane. The agents of ritual diffusion appear to have been not only redundant peasants and neophyte proletarians circulating between the capital city and the nearby plain, but also ethnologists who moved between privileged sites of the Vodou laboratory. The scientific valorization of the heroic slave religion was a centerpiece of the Haitian ethnologists' counter-narrative to European cultural hegemony and North American colonialism. Though their approach to Vodou was part of counter-hegemonic, nationalist discourse, it nonetheless recapitulated a modern view of tradition-bound primitives.

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