The hausa of Nigeria
This book is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics, various other dimensions of Hausa life, minority group...
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Lanham, MD
University Press of America
2010
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| 300 | |a xxix, 214 pages |b illustrations |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- wrestling with identity: from newbie to elder -- Hausa states -- Hausa shamans -- Up close and personal in the field -- Colonialism and the creation of ethn ic identity -- Indirect rule and the reinterpretation of tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri -- Indirect rule continued -- Religious change in a northern Nigerian emirate -- Competitive conversion and its implications for modernized Nigeria -- Religion as play: Bori, a friendly "witchdoctor" -- Hausa Islamic practices -- Hausa culture and personality -- Erikson in Nigeria: exploring the universality of the theory of psychosocial development -- Muslim African women and kinship -- Hausa wrestling and ethnic boundaries -- The Waziri and the thief: Hausa Islamic law in a Yoruba city, a case study from Ibadan, Nigeria -- Student teachers and change -- Children's games in Nigeria redux: a consideration of the "uses" of play -- Dukawa views on death | |
| 520 | |a This book is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics, various other dimensions of Hausa life, minority group relationships, and creolization | ||
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