The Role of Voluntary Associations in West African Urbanization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2444729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Little (0000-0002-6390-3712, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 579-596 |
| Publication date | 1957-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1957.59.4.02a00020 |
| OpenAlex | W1995133377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 17 |
Archaeology · Citation · Club · Economic growth · Ethnology · Immigration · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanization · Voluntary association · Yoruba · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · History · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
The West African Town its Social Basis
Understanding urban anthropology
Life on the Ground
Toward an agenda for placing migrant hometown associations (HTAs) in migration policy-making discourse in Ghana
‘We are Each Other’s Keeper’
Appendices
Distortions and Distinctions in Community Mental Health
‘The old order changeth yielding place to new’
De l’ancrage d’une ville africaine
Of Barrenness and Witchcraft
Voluntary Organizations and Australian Aboriginal Urban Adaptations in Adelaide1
Urban Anthropology in Lima
Feldioara
Regional Associations Among Urban Migrants in Papua New Guinea
Traditional Healers and Their Female Clients
The Development of Local Government in a Nigerian Township
Games in Culture Revisited
Sicilian Recreation Clubs
Voluntary Associations in Hyderabad
Perinatal care
Savannah gendered transition
The interplay between official and unofficial laws in rotating savings and credit associations (Eqqub) in Tigray, Ethiopia
Remembering Ɔkomfo Kwabena
Territorial Découpage and Issues of ‘Autochthony’ in Former Katanga Province, the Democratic Republic of Congo
This Thing Is Sweet”
Threatening Alliances
Engaging with Colonial Knowledge on African Associational Life
Communal Governance and Transnationalism
Rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations
Karagatsiot Voluntary Associations
Cultural Truth and Ethnographic Consequences
Nigerian Population Studies
Observations on the Functions of Voluntary Associations, with Special Reference to West African Cities
Some Traditionally Based Forms of Mutual Aid in West African Urbanization
Nongovernmental China
The urban role of tribal associations in West Africa
Models in social change, with special reference to Southern Africa
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply]
The Analysis of African Nationalism
Small is beautiful
Organizational growth and organizational participation
Funerals and the Public Space of Sentiment in Botswana
Ethnic associations in Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Caste, caste association, caste federation and inequality as vocabularies
Research Report No. 2
African Rural-Urban Migration. The Movement to Ghana's Towns
The Process of Urbanization in Africa (From the Origins to the Beginning of Independence)
Theories of Urbanization and the Colonial City in West Africa
Primary Relationships and Social Participation in a Korean Metropolitan City
The Highland Migrant in Lowland Bolivia
Urbanization and Ethnic Identity in North Sumatra
Kinship and Instrumental Activities
Formal Voluntary Organizations
Fragments of solidarity
Images of torture
Sociology Uncertain
Nationalism in colonial Africa
A Note on Participation in Voluntary Associations in a Mexican City
The Significance of the West African Creole for Africanist and Afro-American Studies
Ashanti Survey, 1945-46
The Voluntary Associations of Urban Dwellers
Patterns of Voluntary Association Among Urban Working-Class Families
Associations on the Basis of Origin in Lagos, Nigeria
The Esusu
The Impact of the War on British West Africa
Structural Change in the Sierra Leone Protectorate
Improvement Associations among the Afikpo Ibo
Adaptation and Integration in the Social System of Temne Immigrants in Freetown
The Study of 'Social Change' in British West Africa
Craft Organization in Yoruba Towns
Urbanization Among the Yoruba
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 1958 - 2026 (69) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |