TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gebauer, Thomas
T1  - Facettes of terrace-building in the culture of the Pero, Longuda and Tula people in north-eastern Nigeria
T2  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
N2  - In the culture of the Pero, Longuda and Tula People in the south-eastern part of Bauchi State, north-eastern Nigeria, terraces are found as traditional means to improve the environmental condition and to secure the survival of the people. To classify those terraces according to their form and function, the techniques and customs of their building and the traditional structures of their development they have to be compared in the context of their own culture. The paper gives a few examples showing that the importance of terraces for the historic and religious concepts of the Pero, Longuda and Tula People is expressed through a tight network of oral traditions, social and religious customs and structures of belief and explanation, which, once they were woven together, eventually build what a malam from Tula called a glue of inheritance, identity, integrity, continuity and security.
T3  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 - 08, 125 
Y1  - 1996
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1852
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35483
VL  - 8
SP  - 125
EP  - 127
PB  - SFB 268
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -