Being and becoming Hausa : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haour, Anne.

Rossi, Benedetta

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

African social studies series ; v. 23.

African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hausa (African people)--Ethnic identity.

Hausa (African people).

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

xvi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Contents:

Hausa identity : language, history and religion / Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi

The role of comparative/historical linguistics in reconstructing the past : what borrowed and inherited words tell us about the early history of Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar

Ancient labels and categories : exploring the 'onomastics' of Kano / Murray Last

More rural than urban? : the religious content and functions of Hausa proverbs and Hausa verbal compounds / Joseph McIntyre

Being and becoming Hausa in Ader / Benedetta Rossi

Kufan Kanawa, Niger : the former Kano? / Anne Haour

Kirfi, Bauchi : an archaeological investigation of the Hausa landscape / Abubakar Sule Sani

The Hausa textile industry : origins and development in the precolonial period / Marisa Candotti

Clothing and identity : how can museum collections of Hausa textiles contribute to understanding the notion of Hausa identity? / Sarah Worden

God made me a rapper : young men, Islam, and survival in an age of austerity / Adeline Masquelier

Engendering a Hausa vernacular Christian practice / Barbara Cooper

Hausa as a process in time and space / John E.G. Sutton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789004185425

9004185429

OCLC:

607613500

Publisher Number:

99939134237