Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case [Paperback]

Ifi Amadiume (Author)

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• Paperback: 93 pages
• Publisher: Red Sea Press (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0907015271
• ISBN-13: 978-0907015277
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,426,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 Stars for Worthy-to-Read Glimpse Into a Former Matriarchy. But Author's Next Book Would Be Better Choice, July 24, 2009

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This review is from: Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case (Paperback)

I read the original edition of 1987. It is a booklet of some 60 regular text pages, with eight additional monochrome picture pages.

It is about the Igbo of Nigeria. Their focus on the mother, women's political power, the Nnobi matriarchy and the goddess Idemili. If you have already read this one, it does make sense to also read the author's next book, published immediately thereafter, it appears: Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. If you want an in-depth elaboration of this book, that is. It doesn't make any sense vice versa: It appears that Ifi Amadiume copy-and-pasted this book's content directly into the next one, after correcting typos and deciding to spell "Afrikan" with a "c". The only information not included in the next book seems to be the two-page conclusion. In other words I don't deem it necessary to pay a collectors' price for this one, if the next book is available.