Azaghvana E-Book 2003 - Flipbook - Page 3
Special commendation by the Amaury Talbot Prize
committee at the Royal Anthropological Institute of
Great Britain and Ireland
Highly commended: An encyclopaedic
account of the people of the Gwoza hills,
at the northern end of the Mandara
mountains in NE Nigeria, this volume
presents its ethnography in rich detail. It is
valuable all the more since the region has
been ravaged by Boko Haram, and
remains insecure. the author terms his
history 'fragmentary' in that context, but
the comprehensive treatment preserves a
remarkable varied record - a feat of
scholarship of great anthropological
worth.
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