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Concubines and power : five hundred years in a Northern Nigerian palace / Heidi J. Nast ; foreword by Hausatu Abba Ado Bayero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nast, Heidi J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Nigeria--Kano--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Concubinage--Nigeria--Kano.
- Concubinage.
- Human geography--Nigeria.
- Human geography.
- Kano (Nigeria)--Politics and government.
- Kano (Nigeria).
- Kano (Nigeria)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The palace of Kano, Nigeria historically housed hundreds of concubines whose influence has been largely overlooked. In Concubines and Power, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell us about a place bereft of archaeological work or primary sources. Social forces undoubtedly shaped concubinage, but Nast shows how the women's reach extended beyond the palace walls to the formation of the state itself.
- Contents:
- Grain treasuries and children : royal concubines in the 1500s and 1600s
- Fecundity, indigo dyeing, and the gendering of eunuchs
- Great transformations : expropriation and fulani rule
- Concubine losses and male gains
- British colonial abolition of slavery and concubinage.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9482-6
- OCLC:
- 476095613
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