Concubines and power : five hundred years in a Northern Nigerian palace /

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The palace of Kano, Nigeria historically housed hundreds of concubines whose influence has been largely overlooked. In Concubines and Power, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell us about a place bereft of archaeological work or primary sources. Social forces undoubtedly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nast, Heidi J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Women > Nigeria > Kano > Social conditions.
Concubinage > Nigeria > Kano.
Human geography > Nigeria.
Femmes > Nigeria > Kano > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Concubinage
Human geography
Politics and government
Women > Social conditions
Kano (Nigeria) > Politics and government.
Kano (Nigeria) > History.
Nigeria
Nigeria > Kano
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Grain treasuries and children : royal concubines in the 1500s and 1600s
  • Fecundity, indigo dyeing, and the gendering of eunuchs
  • Great transformations : expropriation and fulani rule
  • Concubine losses and male gains
  • British colonial abolition of slavery and concubinage.

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