The hausa of Nigeria by Salamone, Frank A.

Table of Contents: “…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…”