Full Description
The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. It is an ethnographic reflection of intense field work in Yauri and the surrounding areas that border it, as well as many trips to archives, libraries, and interview sites. It is also the result of discussions with colleagues, especially Salamone's mentor, Charles Frantz, who directed Salamone to Nigeria and who has aided the author's many years of study of the Hausa over time. Frantz's work on ethnicity, as well as ethics in anthropology, has served to provide a standard for Salamone's own endeavors. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics and various other dimensions of Hausa life, as well as minority group relationships and creolization.
Contents
Chapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction - Wrestling with Identity: From Newbie to Elder Chapter 4 Chapter One - Hausa States Chapter 5 Chapter Two - Hausa Shaman Chapter 6 Chapter Three - Up Close and Personal in the Field Chapter 7 Chapter Four - Colonialism and the Creation of Ethnic Identity Chapter 8 Chapter Five - Indirect Rule and the Reinterpretation of Tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri Chapter 9 Chapter Six - Indirect Rule Continued Chapter 10 Chapter Seven - Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate Chapter 11 Chapter Eight - Competitive Converstion and Its Implicatiosn for Modernized Nigeria Chapter 12 Chapter Nine - Religion as Play: Bori, a Friendly "Witchdoctor" Chapter 13 Chapter Ten - Hausa Islamic Practices Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven - Hausa Culture and Personality Chapter 15 Chapter Twelve - Erikson in Nigeria: Exploring the Universality of the Theory of Psychosocial Development Chapter 16 Chapter Thirteen - Muslim African Women and Kinship Chapter 17 Chapt
