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Moving through and passing on : Fulani mobility, survival, and identity in Ghana / Yaa P.A. Oppong.
Van Pelt Library DT510.43.F84 O66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oppong, Yaa P. A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fula (African people)--Migrations.
- Fula (African people)--Ethnic identity.
- Fula (African people)--Social conditions.
- Cattle herders--Ghana.
- Cattle herders.
- Fula (African people).
- Ethnicity.
- Ghana--Social conditions.
- Ghana.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transation Publishers, [2002]
- Contents:
- Movement, Identity, and Survival 1
- Fulani in West Africa and Ghana 3
- Resources of Identity: Sameness and Difference 6
- Argument 9
- Subsequent Chapters 13
- 2 Who are "We?": Crossing Boundaries through Space and Time 19
- West Africa 19
- The Fulani on the Move: Representations in Space, Time, and Myth 28
- 3 Fulani in Greater Accra: Following Cows and Forgetting Home 47
- Ghana 47
- Fulani in Greater Accra 55
- Some Fulani Individuals in Greater Accra Today: Socioeconomic Profiles 56
- Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Fulani Society: Solidarity and Dispersal 65
- New Madina 77
- 4 Globalizing Kinship: Marriage and Mobility among Far-Flung Fulani Families 87
- Fulani Marriage in Greater Accra 88
- Arranged Marriages: Force and Free Will 95
- Family Marriage 100
- Non-Family Marriage 105
- Globalizing Kinship: The Geography of Fulani Marriage 108
- Webs of Kinship: Separation and Solidarity 111
- 5 Mobile Stories, Gendered Lives: Socialization, Training and Education 121
- Gendered Differentials in Experiences and Opportunities: The Life Cycle Approach 122
- The Virtues and Vices of Formalized Education 135
- Pulaaku 151
- Hamidu's Story 153
- 6 Suudu-baabas: Fulani Ethnic Associations 161
- "There are Different Suudu-baabas" 163
- Organization of Suudu-baabas 171
- Aims and Objectives: "Public Issues" 175
- 7 Performance and Identity: Conflict and Contradiction in Social Drama 183
- Sameness and Difference 185
- Rhetoric and Reality 193
- Tensions in Traditions 197
- 8 "We Have No Home Like Ghana..." 205
- Appendix 1 A Note on Field Methods 217
- "Sitting at the Edge of the Mat" 217
- "Mobile Ethnography" 218
- Appendix 2 Myths of Origin 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765801264
- OCLC:
- 48655838
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