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Early Expatriate Society in Northern Nigeria: Contributions to a Refinement of a Theory of Pluralism

Primary among the criticisms that third-world scholars and radical social scientists have directed against applied social sciences in general and social anthropology in particular has been their alleged failures to the colonial context in which much of its field work has been carried out (Cf. Asad, 1975; Lewis, 1973, for examples.) Although these critics usually exaggerate their arguments and typically do not prove that early scholars were either overt or covert racists, it is true, nonetheless, that social scientists have paid relatively little attention to the colonial milieu, Condominas's (…