Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States
Lessons from Folkloristics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2823979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Akuma-Kalu Njoku (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 497 |
| Pages | 327-342 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/jamerfolk.125.497.0327 |
| OpenAlex | W2000822494 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Since 2000, the goal of my teaching of Igbo cultural heritage in the United States has been to resuscitate suppressed Igbo community traditions and neglected traditional knowledge among educated parents so that they can pass their Igbo culture on to their American-born children. It is for this reason that I have chosen to be called, and have come to be known in Igbo American communities as TICHA, which stands for the Teaching of Igbo Cultural Heritage in America. This article shows how I have been using lessons from my over thirty years' study of Igbo folklore to reacquaint Igbo people in America with Igbo cultural heritage, thereby shaping their preparedness to resuscitate and establish their ethnic community tradition in the United States
Folklore · Folkloristics · Igbo · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Philosophy
Strategic Interaction
Verbal art as performance
"I Have a Yong Suster"
Conserving Culture
Narrative Voices and Repertoire at a Healing Crossroads in South India
Folk Groups and Folklore Genres
Creativity and Resistance
Eastward to the Islands
Putting Folklore to Use
Envisioning Folklore Activism
Verbal Art as Performance1
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |