Being and becoming Hausa [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haour, Anne.

Rossi, Benedetta.

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).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95279-X

9786612952791

90-04-18543-7

OCLC:

695990289

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004185425.i-310 DOI