Los Igbo, según la sección de antropología de la universidad de Yale
CULTURE SUMMARY: IGBO By IFI AMADIUME 000 Material Not Relevant ETHNONYMS Ala Igbo, Ani Igbo, Ibo, Ndi Igbo. 101 Identification ORIENTATION IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION Igbo is the language spoken in Ala Igbo or Ani Igbo (Igboland) by the people who are collectively referred to as “Ndi Igbo”; their community is known as “Olu no Igbo” (“those in the lowlands and uplands”). Before European colonialism, the Igbo-speaking peoples, who shared similarities in culture, lived in localized communities and were not unified under a single cultural identity or political framework, although unifying processes were present via expansion, ritual subordination, intermarriage, trade, cultural exchange, migration, war, and conquest. Villages and village groups were generally identified by distinct names of their ancestral founders or by specific names such as Umuleri, Nri, Ogidi, Nnobi, Orlu, Ngwa, Ezza, and Ohaffia. There are several theories concerning the etymology of the word “Igbo” (wrongly sp...