M D W Jeffreys

• Adopting a Companion Dog Helps Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Pilot Randomized Trial

  Open Access•Stephen L Stern, Erin P Finley et al.•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2022•Referências: 3

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  Despite significant treatment advances, many military veterans continue to suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) and associated symptoms, suggesting a need for new interventions. This pilot trial examined the change in psychological symptoms of 19 veterans in treatment for PTSD who were randomized either to adopt a dog immediately from a Humane Society shelter ( n = 9) or to a three-month waitlist followed by dog adoption ( n = 10). …

• Potential Benefits of Canine Companionship for Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  Stephen L Stern, D Allen Donahue et al.•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2013•Citada por: 6•Referências: 3

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  Investigators surveyed 30 U.S. military veterans with PTSD who reported having benefited from living with a dog. The subject population included men and women aged 34 to 67, with a mean of 56.9 years ( SD = 8.1), who were being treated at two Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinics. Participants received a questionnaire packet designed to assess aspects of their mental and physical health and relationship with a canine companion, w…

• Arab-introduced exotics in East Africa

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1974•Referências: 6

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• Polygny in the Christian Fold

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Practical Anthropology•1972

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  Taking his point of departure from a recent editorial in PA, the author adduces evidence from Josephus, the Mishnah, and other ancient and modern sources to show that polygyny was common in Jewish and neighboring cultures in biblical times. He also describes the cultural and social problems caused by the traditional strong ban on polygyny imposed by Christian missions

• Fire-dogs of Africa

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1972•Referências: 3

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• Man Across the Sea

  Herbert G Baker, Daniel Randall Beirne et al.•BOOK•Man Across the Sea•1971

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• Historical review of the nomenclature applied to Negro languages

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1971•Referências: 16

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• The Mantis Myth

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1971

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• Maize and the Mande Myth

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1971•Citada por: 7•Referências: 19

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  This paper is an attempt to evaluate the evidence offered by the Mande myth and tribal traditions for the introduction into western Africa of the American maize plant at a date long before the birth of Columbus. The Mande have a myth in which maize travels from west to east down the Niger to Lake Debo near Timbuktu, on the "buckle of the Niger." This myth occurs among numerous tribes widely scattered in the western Sudan. Evidence from the tribal…

• Letters

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1970

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• Letters

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1970

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• The Mantis Myth

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1970

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• Ogoni Folklore

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Folklore•1970•Citada por: 2

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• A loop-dagger

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Ethnos•1969

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• The Cabonas

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1968•Referências: 2

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• Bushman circumcision

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1968•Referências: 2

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• Bahr Sudan=Black sea=river Niger

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1968•Referências: 3

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• Bored Stones

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1967

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• Maize

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1967

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• Some Ibibio Folk-Tales

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Folklore•1967

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  DURING the years that I was an Administrative Officer in the British Colonial Civil Service, stationed among the Ibibio of the Calabar Province, I collected a few of the folk-tales which I now present. The Ibibio number about a million souls and comprise most of the population of the Calabar province of eastern Nigeria. There is no name by which they refer to themselves as a tribal group, and the name Agbisherea by which they were known to the ea…

• Pounding Implements

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1966

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• An early reference to the Zulu

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1966•Citada por: 1•Referências: 1

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• Witchcraft in the Calabar province

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1966•Citada por: 1

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• Smoking in Africa

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1965

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• Flying Buck

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The South African Archaeological…•1965

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• Samsonic suicide or suicide of revenge among Africans

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1952•Citada por: 15•Referências: 6

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  SYNOPSIS Durkheim's analysis of the suicides in European cultures showed that there were three types — the Egoistic the Altruistic and the Anomic. These types are conditioned by the general pattern of European society. African societies are patterned differently and a different type of suicide becomes manifest, namely suicides of revenge or as I have called them, Samsonic suicides, because Samson's suicide was one of revenge where by killing hims…

• Lobolo is child-price

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1951•Citada por: 15•Referências: 10

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  SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS The introduction deals with the various attempts to translate, e.g., a term like lobolo by such phrases as bride‐price, earnest, compensation, etc., including the recommendation not to translate such terms but to use, e.g. lobolo itself, in place of such terms or translations. The translation Child‐price is then declared to be the only correct translation possible. Marriage among the patriarchal, patrilocal Negroes of Africa is …

• How Ancient is West African Maize

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1963•Citada por: 8•Referências: 8

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  Eastern Whites in Western AfricaMy article on Zaburro was written in the expectation that it would stimulate discussion over the antiquity of maize in West Africa, and the matter has been taken up by Professor Portères (1959), on whose publication Mr. Willett has relied for certain inferences in his article inAfricafor January 1962. Among the interesting points brought forward by Professor Portères (1959, vi) are the groups of African vernacular …

• The Wiya tribe

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1962•Citada por: 8•Referências: 11

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• The Umundri tradition of origin

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1956•Citada por: 8•Referências: 3

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  SYNOPSIS The Umundri are an Ibo group living in the Onitsha Province, Southern Nigeria. Their tradition of origin states that a man, Eri, and his wife came to earth from the sky. Except for the anthill on which they alighted the earth was a morass. An Awka blacksmith with his equipment was sent to dry up the earth. During Eri's lifetime his people were fed from the sky. When he died this food ceased. Chuku, the sky god, told Ndri, Eri's eldest so…

• The Divine Umundri King

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1935•Citada por: 8

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  Opening ParagraphThis paper is based on personal research among the Igbo, and more especially among the Umundri group. It describes the coronation-ceremony of two divine kings who are the spiritual heads of the Umundri. The two divine kings occupy different towns which are in the Awka District, Onitsha Province. This Province is in Southern Nigeria and lies on the left bank of the Niger. Originally there was only Aguku and only one divine king. D…

• Maize and the Mande Myth

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1971•Citada por: 7•Referências: 19

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  This paper is an attempt to evaluate the evidence offered by the Mande myth and tribal traditions for the introduction into western Africa of the American maize plant at a date long before the birth of Columbus. The Mande have a myth in which maize travels from west to east down the Niger to Lake Debo near Timbuktu, on the "buckle of the Niger." This myth occurs among numerous tribes widely scattered in the western Sudan. Evidence from the tribal…

• Dual organisation in Africa

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1946•Citada por: 7•Referências: 10

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• Potential Benefits of Canine Companionship for Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  Stephen L Stern, D Allen Donahue et al.•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2013•Citada por: 6•Referências: 3

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  Investigators surveyed 30 U.S. military veterans with PTSD who reported having benefited from living with a dog. The subject population included men and women aged 34 to 67, with a mean of 56.9 years ( SD = 8.1), who were being treated at two Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinics. Participants received a questionnaire packet designed to assess aspects of their mental and physical health and relationship with a canine companion, w…

• Some Rules of Directed Culture Change Under Roman Catholicism

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1956•Citada por: 6•Referências: 1

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• The Nyama society of the ibibio women

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1956•Citada por: 6•Referências: 4

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  SYNOPSIS Among many of the Ibibio of south‐eastern Nigeria there exists a society of women known by various names, of which Nyama is that around the Government station of Ikot Ekpene where investigations on this society were carried out. Among the Ibibio the belief exists that clitoridectomy aids in child‐bearing. This operation, together with body cicatrization, takes place shortly before marriage and after menstruation is well established. It i…

• The Diffusion of Cowries and Egyptian Culture in Africa

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1948•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

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• The Bali of Bamenda

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1957•Citada por: 4•Referências: 1

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  SYNOPSIS In the Bamenda Province, British Cameroons, is a group of people called the Bali. They are a Chamba group from the north and are recent arrivals. This paper presents the history of their southwards migration and shows them to be the descendants of a defeated mercenary army of the Fulani

• The Batwa

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1953•Citada por: 4•Referências: 6

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  Opening ParagraphThere are no such people, any more than there were such people as the Philistines.In 'L'origine du nom Fulani', I showed that the words 'Philistine' and 'Fulani' come from a common root F-L which in the Indo-European languages means 'foreigner, stranger, alien' and, by a secondary meaning, 'inferior'. Consequently there is no single group of people represented by the word 'Philistine' any more than there can be any special group …

• The Winged Solar Disk or Ibo Itεi Facial Scarification

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1951•Citada por: 4•Referências: 9

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  Opening ParagraphThis article is based on researches, undertaken in 1930-1 at the request of the Nigerian Government, into the magico-religious beliefs of the Umundri group of Ibo in the Awka Division, Onitsha Province, Southern Nigeria. Umundri means 'children of Ndri' (a 'Sky-Being

• Names of American Negro Slaves

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1948•Citada por: 4

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• The Hand Bolt

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Man•1965•Citada por: 3

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• Who are the Tikar

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1964•Citada por: 3•Referências: 6

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• Ikeŋga

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1954•Citada por: 3•Referências: 3

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  SYNOPSIS Among the Ibo of Southern Nigeria is a cult object known as Ikeŋga. It is associated with good fortune, success, ability and the strength of the right arm. It is represented by a carved wooden figure of a man with rams horns on his head and a machet in one hand and a human head in the other. Rams are sacrificed to it. The information of previous observers is summarized followed by my own field work. Then other instances in Africa of the …

• Some Notes on the Bikom Blacksmiths

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Man•1952•Citada por: 3

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• Age-groups among the Ika and kindred people

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1950•Citada por: 3•Referências: 5

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  SYNOPSIS The term Age‐group is preferable to those of Age‐grade, Age‐class, Age‐set, for reasons given by Professor Radcliffe‐Brown and Dr. Richards. Age‐grouping is a social device, not a biological recognition of immaturity, maturity and decrepitude. Such divisions are found for instance among bees. If age‐groups were thus biologically based they would be found in all human societies but as age‐grouping is a social device, it is not found in al…

• Notes on twins

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947•Citada por: 3

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• Ogoni Folklore

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Folklore•1970•Citada por: 2

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• Some Notes on the Kwaja Smiths of Bamenda

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Man•1962•Citada por: 2

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• Arab Knowledge of the Niger's Course

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1955•Citada por: 2•Referências: 4

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  Opening ParagraphIn the first half of the nineteenth century European knowledge of the course of the Niger was vague. Sir Taubman Goldie summed up the position when he said: 'In 1819, only those interested in geographical research were familiar with the name of the Niger, or knew that its upper waters, down to Bussa, had been traced fourteen years before by a Scotchman, Mungo Park, the father of African exploration in modern times. It was only in…

• The Divine Umundri King

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1935•Citada por: 8

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  Opening ParagraphThis paper is based on personal research among the Igbo, and more especially among the Umundri group. It describes the coronation-ceremony of two divine kings who are the spiritual heads of the Umundri. The two divine kings occupy different towns which are in the Awka District, Onitsha Province. This Province is in Southern Nigeria and lies on the left bank of the Niger. Originally there was only Aguku and only one divine king. D…

• Additional Steps in the Umundri Coronation Ceremony

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1936•Referências: 2

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  The Umundri coronation ceremony as described in Africa, vol. viii, no. 3, requires the addition of two more steps. Though they are not recorded by Hocart in his Kingship yet one of them, the Prostration or the Humiliation, is described by Professor James in his book, Christian Myth and Ritual. The other, the Scourging or Buffeting, has not been described before as a ritual step. Though neither were recorded in the Umundri coronation ceremony, yet…

• Some Notes on the Ekoi

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•The Journal of the Royal…•1939•Citada por: 2•Referências: 1

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• Sacred Twinned Vessels

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Man•1939•Citada por: 1

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• Psychical Phenomena Among Negroes

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Affairs•1940

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  Journal Article PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA AMONG NEGROES Get access M. D. W. JEFFREYS, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D.(Lond.) M. D. W. JEFFREYS, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D.(Lond.) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXIX, Issue CLVII, October 1940, Pages 354–360, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101056 Published: 01 October 1940

• Some African Tribal Names

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Affairs•1942

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  SOME AFRICAN TRIBAL NAMES Get access M. D. W. JEFFREYS, M.A., PH.D. M. D. W. JEFFREYS, M.A., PH.D. Bamenda, British Cameroons, West Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XLI, Issue CLXII, January 1942, Pages 47–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a099545 Published: 01 January 1942

• African Pterodactyls

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Affairs•1944

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  Journal Article AFRICAN PTERODACTYLS Get access M. D. W. JEFFREYS, M.A., PH.D. M. D. W. JEFFREYS, M.A., PH.D. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1944, Pages 72–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093394 Published: 01 April 1944

• Guns

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Affairs•1944

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• District Officer in Cameroons Answers Ako Adjei

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1944

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• Some historical notes on African tone languages

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1945

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• The death of a dialect

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1945•Citada por: 2•Referências: 1

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• The Wanderers

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Affairs•1946

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  Dr. Jeffreys writes to say that he would be interested to hear of any other tribe whose name is a sobriquet for “wanderer” or “stranger”. He has not dealt with Southern Africa, and we would therefore suggest Angoni. Any reader who can add to the list may care to get into touch with the writer of this article at Bamenda, British Cameroons

• Mythical Origin of Cattle in Africa

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Man•1946•Citada por: 1

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• Dual organisation in Africa

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1946•Citada por: 7•Referências: 10

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• Nsaangu's head

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1946•Citada por: 1

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• Books in review

  G P Lestrade, M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947

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  H. Roland : (1) Grammaire de la langue Kisanga, pp. 111, 1937; (2) Vocabulaire Français‐Kisanga, pp. 150, 1938. (Missions Bénédictines, Anaye de Saint‐André les Bruges). Ethiopia Under Hailé Selasslé. By CHRISTINE SANDFORD. 1946. London: Dent. pp. 149. 10s. 6d. Elements of Southern Sotho. By R. A. PAROZ: viii + 257 pp. Morija., 1946. The Social Structure of the Southern Sotho ward, By E. H. ASHTON, is Communication No. 15, New Series of Sept. 194…

• Books in review

  M D W Jeffreys, K Kirkwood et al.•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947•Citada por: 1•Referências: 1

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  Calabar. D. M. McFarlan. (1946.) 183 pp. and Map. Studies in African Native Law. Julius Lewin. (Cape Town: The African Bookman. 1947.) 174 pp. 15s. Essai de Grammaire Tsogo. Abbé Andre Walker. (Brazzaville: Inst. d'Etudes Centrafricaines. 1946.) 64 pp

• Books in review

  M D W Jeffreys, S M Mofokeng•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947

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  264 Zulu Proverbs, Idioms, etc. and The Cries of Thirty‐seven Birds. R. G. Dunning. Durban. Knox P. & P. Co., pp. 58, 5. ’Musa Pelo. K. E. Ntsanf. 1946. Morija, Basutoland. 76 pp. Robert Gray. Audrey Brooke 1947. Oxford University Press. 158 pp. 10s 6d

• Notes on twins

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947•Citada por: 3

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• The Origin of the Name Hottentot

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Affairs•1947•Citada por: 1

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  The author was once a Senior District Commissioner in Nigeria and is now Senior Lecturer at Witwatersrand

• Ogoni Pottery

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Man•1947•Citada por: 2

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• Speculative Origins of the Fulani Language

  Open Access•M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•Africa•1947•Citada por: 1

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  Opening ParagraphThe Fulani people extend across Africa, from Senegal to Dafur, but their origin, like the origin of the universe, is unknown. I have drawn attention to the probable origin of the name Fulani. I propose in this article to review some of the suggested origins of the Fulani language and to put forward a suggestion of my own

• A Livingstone letter

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947

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• The capture of Fumbam

  M D W Jeffreys•ARTICLE•African Studies•1947•Citada por: 1

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• Books in review

  M D W Jeffreys, J D Rheinallt‐Jones•ARTICLE•African Studies•1948

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  Ngombe Grammar. E. W. Price. (1947.) Roneod foolscap, 88 pp. The Distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic Languages of Africa. M. A. Bryan, (International African Institute, 1947). 36 pp., 4/6. An African Aristocracy. Hilda Kuper. (Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press.) Text 242 pp. excluding pages for Bibliography and Index and Map of Swaziland. Price 30/‐ net. Land Law and Custom in the Colonies. C. K…

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