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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London,
©2004.
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| 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.