Inhalt

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   TABLE OF CONTENTS
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   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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   FOREWORD
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   CHAPTER I – INTRODUCTION
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   1.1 Research Methodology
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   1.2 The Field: An Ethnography of Transnational Exchange
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   1.3 Organisation and Data Management
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   CHAPTER II – THE IGBO WORLD AND HER SOCIAL SYSTEMS
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   2.1 The Igbo: People and Society
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   2.2 Igbo Traditional Social Structure
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  2.3 Igbo Kinship System and Social Organisation
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   2.3.1 The Family
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   2.3.2 The Lineage (Ụmụnna)
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   2.3.2.1 Ego’s Patrilineage
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   2.3.2.2 The Patrilineage of Ego’s Wife
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   2.3.2.3 The Patrilineage of Ego’s Mother
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   2.3.2.4 The Patrilineage of Ego’s Paternal Grandmother
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   2.3.2.5 Further Explanations
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   2.3.3 The Community: Iheakpu-Awka Model as a Case Study
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   2.4 Reciprocity and Kinship Obligations
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   2.5 Social Organisation of the Ụmụnna
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   CHAPTER III – IGBO TRADITIONAL WORLDVIEW AND VALUE ORIENTATION
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   3.1 Traditional Igbo Cosmology
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   3.1.1 Dualism in Igbo Cosmology
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   3.1.2 The Ọfọ Symbol in Igbo Traditional Cosmology
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   3.1.3 Ọfọ Symbol in Traditional Social Structure
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  3.2 Igbo Value System
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   3.2.1 Life as a continuum
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   3.2.2 An integrated world
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   3.2.3 A dynamic world
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   3.2.4 The world as a marketplace
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   3.2.5 Unstable social status
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   3.3 Igbo Core Values
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  CHAPTER IV – RITUALS AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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   4.1 The Concept of Ritual
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  4.2 Social Functions of Ritual
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   4.2.1 Ritual as a Principle of Social Cohesion
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   4.2.2 Ritual as a Vehicle of Social Continuity
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   4.2.3 Ritual creates “Systems of Circulation”
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   4.3 Rituals of Birth
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   4.3.1 The Ọmụgọ Ritual
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   4.3.2 Ịgụ-ogbo Ritual
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   4.3.3 Ịgụ-aha Ritual (Naming Ceremony)
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   4.3.4 “Putting the Child on Ground” (ịtọ nwa n’ala)
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   4.3.5 Ahịa nwa – Mother’s Outing Ceremony
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   4.4 Eze ji (King of Yam): A Ritual of Initiation
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   4.5 Rituals of Marriage
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  4.6 Stages of the Ritual Process of Marriage
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   4.6.1 The Ijụ Ese Stage (Mutual Inquiries)
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   4.6.2 Ịhụ Ashụa: Negotiating the “Bride Price”
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   4.6.3 Mmanya Nchọta – The Feast of Handing over the Bride
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   4.7 Mortuary Rituals
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   4.7.1 The processes of traditional Igbo funeral
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   4.7.2 Elements of symbolic inversion in Igbo mortuary ritual
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  CHAPTER V – THE CITY, THE SCRAPYARD AND THE BLACK MARKET
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   5.1 Transforming Scrap into Fortune
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   5.2 The Uneventful Beginnings
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   5.3 “Learning by Doing”: Systems of Apprenticeship
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   5.4 An Emerging Global Market
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   5.4.1 Vehicles and Motor Spare Parts Section
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   5.4.2 Electronics and Home Appliances Section
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   5.4.3 Refrigerating Systems Section
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   5.4.4 Other Ancillary Sections
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   5.5 “Black” Market in a German Neighbourhood: Dealing with Stereotypes
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   5.6 Looking behind the High Walls: The Gaze of the State
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   CHAPTER VI – BEYOND THE SCRAPYARD: OTHER SPACES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION
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  6.1 Brief Clarification of Basic Concepts
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   6.1.1 Exchange
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   6.1.2 Social Integration
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   6.1.3 Common Discursive Register
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   6.1.4 The Social Field
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   6.2 The Neighbourhood Community
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   6.2.1 German Neighbourhoods
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   6.2.2 The Igbo in Essen
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   6.2.3 Scattered Residency
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   6.3 The Child’s School as a Social Field
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   6.4 The Religious Community:
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   6.5 Mutual Interests and Transcendental Values
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   CHAPTER VII – WHAT REMAINS? Cultural Identity and Adaptation
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   7.1 A Clownish Audacity?
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   7.2 Cultural Identity in a Globalized World
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   7.3 Creolization or Adaptation: Contestation of Meanings
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   7.3.1 Emerging forms of Cultural Adaptation
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   7.3.2 Hannerz’s ‘Form of Life’ Framework
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   7.4 Food and Culinary Practices
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   7.5 Continuity and Adaptation in Igbo Food Practices
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   7.6 Fashion
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   7.6.1 Between Costume and Fashion: Continuity and Adaptation in Clothing Styles
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   7.6.2 Haircare and Fashion
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   7.7 The Value of the Strange: Appraising the Interkulturelle Woche 2019
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  CHAPTER VIII – CONCLUSION
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   8.1 Encounter – Participation – Integration
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   8.2 Looking behind the High walls… Towards an Intercultural Hermeneutics
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   BIBLIOGRAPHY
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   GLOSSARY
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   APPENDIX