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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 241 392 SO 015 395 AUTHOR Schultz, Emily A., Ed. TITLE Image and Reality in African Interethnic Relations: The Fulbe and Their Neighbors. Studies in Third World Societies, Publication Number Eleven. INSTITUTION College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Dept. of Anthropology. PUB DATE Mar 80 NOTE 176p.; For related documents, see ED 229 315 and SO 015 396. AVAILABLE FROMDepartment of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185 ($7.00 institutions; $6.00 individuals; $5.00 students). PUB TYPE Viewpoints (120) -- Collected Works - General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *African Culture; Agricultural Production; Animal Husbandry; Anthropology; Area Studies; Comparative Analysis; Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Context; Culture; Developing Nations; Environment; Ethnicity; *Ethnic Relations; *Ethnic Studies; Foreign Countries; Group Dynamics; Intergroup Relations; Livestock; Political Issues; Social Discrimination; Social Environment; Social Science Research; Social Status IDENTIFIERS *Africa (west); Camaroon; *Fulbe (Tribes); West Africans ABSTRACT The eight articles in this collection focus on the Fulbe culture in West Africa, its intragroup relationships as well as its relations with other ethnic groups. Each article relates the concept of ethnicity to social and political differentiation among tribes. Following an introduction by Emily Schultz, John Lewis presents the findings of three field visits to evaluate transhumant cattle management in the Sahel. Paul Riesman examines the relationship between the Fulani people of West Africa and their environment, paying particular attention to the people's cultural and environmental ties to their cattle. Gregory Finnegan and Christopher Delgado discuss the relationship between the Mossi farmers and the Fulbe herders in Upper Volta. The changing significance ethnicity has in the various power relationships of the aristocracy of the Sokota is presented by Joyce Hendrixsou. James Vaughan examines intersocietal relations of two groups, the Margi and the Fulani, from a historical perspective, focusing on the reasons for cultural barriers against the Fulani. Chantal Collard discusses the various n eighbors of the Fulbe, and Emily Schultz is concerned with perceptions of ethnicity in Guider Town, Cameroon. A final article, by Eric Ayisi, analyzes the main points of the preceding articles. Notes on contributing authors conclude the journal. 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Each publication contains papers dealing with a single theme or area, addressed both to scholars and laymen as well as to teachers, students, and practitioners of SOCidi science; the papers should be of value also to applied social scientists, planners, demographers, community development workers, and other students of human cultures and societies. COPYRIGHT 1981 by THE EDITORS Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81 65166 Communications concerning editorial matters,including requeststo reprint or translate, and correspondence about subscriptions, change of address, circulation, and payments should be addressed to The Editors STUDIES IN THIRD WORLD SOCIETIES Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 U.S.A. Phone: (804) 253-4522 EDITORS MARIO D. ZAMORA VINSON H. SUTLIVE NATHAN ALTSHULER PUBLISHER DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 U.S.A. International Editorial Advisory Board Teodore Agoncillo (University of the Philippines), Carlos H. Aguilar (University of Costa Rica), Muhammad All (University of Malaya), Jacques Amyot (ChulalongkornUniversity,Thailand), Ghaus Ansari (Kuwait University), George N. Appell (Brandeis University), Harold Barclay (UniversityofAlberta, Canada),Etta Becker-Donner (Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria), Harumi Befu (Stanford University), Ignacio Bernal (Institute Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico), Ronald M. Berndt (University of Western Australia), Fernando Camara (ins tituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico), Paulo de Carvaiho -Heto (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Joseph B. Casagrande (University of Illinois),S. Chandrasekhar(CaliforniaStateUniversity),K.C.Chang (Yale University), Chen Chi-lu (National Taiwan University, China), Hackeny Choe (SeoulNational University, Korea), George Coelho (National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland), Horacio dela Costa (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), Ronald Cohen (Ahmado Bello University, Nigeria), Ronald Crocombe (University of the Pacific, Fiji Island), May N. Diaz (University of California, Berkeley), K.O. Dike (Harvard University), Fred Eggan (University of Chicago), S.C. Dube (IndiaInstitute of Advanced Study,India),John M. Echols (Cornell University),S.N. Eisenstadt (Hebrew University, Israel), Gabriel Escobar M. (Pennsylvania State University and Lima, Peru), Claudio Esteva Fabregat (University of Barcelona, Spain), Orlando Fals Borda (Bogota, Colombia), Muhammad Fayyaz (Punjab University, Pakistan, and Queens University, Canada), C. Dean Freudenberger (School of Theology, Claremont, California), Morton H. Fried (Columbia University), lsao Fujimoto (University of California, Davis), C. von Furer-Haimendorf (London School of Oriental and African Studies,England), Dante Germino (UniversityofVirginia), Walter Goldschmidt (University of California, Los Angeles), Nancie L. Gonzalez (Boston University), W.W. Howells (Harvard University), Francis L.K. Hsu (Northwestern University), Charles C. Hughes (University of Utah Medical Center), Erwin H. Johnson (State University of New York, Buffalo), Koentjaraningrat (University of Indonesia), T.A. Lambo (World Health Organization, Switzerland), Gottfried 0. Lang (University of Colorado), Peter Lawrence (Sydney University, Australia), Diane K. Lewis (University ,4 of California, Santa Cru/), bapen Liang (Asiamerica Research Institute, California), Abdoulaye Ly (University of Dakar, Senegal), Robert A. Manners (Brandeis University), Jamshed Mavalwala (University of Toronto, Canada),Eugenio Fernandez Mendez (Universidad dePuertoRico), Alfredo T. Morales (National Research and Development Centre for Teacher Education, University of the Philippines), Gananath Obeyesekere (University of California, San Diego), Gottfried Oosterwal (Andrews University), Marvin K. Op ler (State University of New York, Buffalo), Morris E. Opler (University of Oklahoma), Alfonso Ortiz (Princeton University), Akin Rabibhadana (Thammasat University, Thailand), V.J. Ram (United Nations, Beirut, Lebanon), M.S.A. Rao (University of Delhi, India),J.B. Romain (CRESHS,Haiti),RenatoI.Rosaido (Stanford University),Irving Rouse (Yale University), Miguel Acosta Saignes (Caracas, Venezuela), Kerma! S. Sandhu (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore), Edward H. Spicer (University of Arizona), Spiegal- Rosing (Rhur-Universitat Bochum, Germany), Rodolfo Stavenhagen (El Colegio de Mexico), Akira Takahashi (University of Tokyo, Japan), Mischa Titiev (University of Michigan), Reim Torres de Arauz (Institute Nacional de Cultura y Deportes, Panama), Donald Tugby (Queensland University, Australia), Victor W. Turner (University of Virginia), Victor C. Uchendu (University of Illinois and Kampala, Uganda), Lionel Vallee (University of Montreal, Canada), Mario C. Vasquez (National Office of Agrarian Reform, Peru), L.P. Vidyarthi (Ranchi University, India), B.M. Villanueva (United Nations, New York City),Hiroshi Wagatsuma (University of California, Los Angeles), Wong Soon Kai (Kuching, Sarawak), Inger Wulff (Danish National Museum). Typist - Jean Belvin 5 CONTENTS Publication Number Eleven March 1980 IMAGE AND REALITY IN AFRICAN INTER ETHNIC RELATIONS Emily A. Schultz *.J Guest Editor Page Emily A. Schults v Introduction John Van D. Lewis. 1 Range Use and Fulbe Social Organization: The View From Macina Paul Riesman 21 Aristocrats as Subjects in a Multi-Ethnic State Gregory A. Finnegan 6c Christopher L. Delgado 31 Cachez La Vache: Mossi Cattle, Fulbe _Keepers, and the Maintenance of Ethnicity . Joyce Hendrixson 31 The Changing Significance of Ethnicity and Power Relationships, Sokoto, Nigeria James H. Vaughan 93 Margi Resistance to Fulani Incorporation: A Curious Resolution Chantal Collard 107 Relations Between the Guidar of Northern Cameroon and the Fulbe (1800-1977) Emily A. Schultz 127 Perceptions of Ethnicity in Guider Town Eric 0. Ayisi 133 Discussion go Notes on Contributors 163 INTRODUCTION IMAGE AND REALITY IN AFRICAN INTERETHNIC RELATIONS: The Fulbe and Their Neighbors EMILY A. SCHULTZ St. John's University Earlier versions of all but one of the papers in this collection originally were presented as part of a session organized by Emily Schultz andPaul Riesman at the 77thannual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 1978; the