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The Hausa of Nigeria /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Salamone, Frank A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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 ethnic 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.