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Islamic and caste knowledge practices among Haalpulaaren in Senegal : between mosque and termite mound /

This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dilley, Roy, 1954-
Autor Corporativo: International African Institute
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, ©2004.
Colección:International African library ; 30.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Mosque and the termite mound
  • Ranks and categories: the emergence of a Haalpulaar social division of labour
  • Historical origins and social pedigrees of craftsmen and musicians: genealogies of power and knowledge of the wild
  • The white and the black: ideology and the rise to dominance of the Islamic clerics
  • Accommodationist Sufi Islam and rites of passage: tensions and ambiguities
  • The witch-hunter and the marabout: competing domains of knowledge and power
  • The power of the word: the oral and the written
  • Islamic reformers, Islamists and the Muslim community.