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Telling stories, making histories : women, words, and Islam in nineteenth-century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
- Title
- Telling stories, making histories : women, words, and Islam in nineteenth-century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate / Mary Wren Bivins.
- Author
- Bivins, Mary Wren.
- Publication
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 192 p. : map; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Social history of Africa, 1099-8098
- Subject
- Women, Hausa > Social conditions > 19th century
- Women, Hausa > Language > History > 19th century
- Women, Hausa > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Storytelling > Fulani Empire > History
- Muslim women > Fulani Empire > Social conditions
- Sex role > Fulani Empire > History
- Islam > Social aspects > History. > Fulani Empire
- Fulani Empire > Social conditions
- Nigeria, Northern > Social conditions
- Niger > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-184) and index.
- Contents
- Women and stories, scholars and texts : women's voices in nineteenth century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate -- Missions to Hausaland : European observations, investigations and conversations -- In praise of farming : women, food, and identity in Kasar Hausa -- "A story, a story. Let it come. Let it go" : the narrative landscapes and social spaces of storytelling -- "If a man does not want you" : stories of marriage and crisis in Hausa families -- "Womenfolk take heed!" : Muslim wives and Hausa marriages : lessons from Sokoto -- Telling stories, making history : women, narrative and historical knowledge in nineteenth century Hausaland.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-6705
- ISBN
- 032507013X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780325070131 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0325070121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780325070124 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006103355
- OCLC
- 77821635
- Author
- Bivins, Mary Wren.
- Title
- Telling stories, making histories : women, words, and Islam in nineteenth-century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate / Mary Wren Bivins.
- Imprint
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2007.
- Series
- Social history of Africa, 1099-8098
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-184) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6705Sc E 07-995