Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Haour, Anne.
• Rossi, Benedetta.

Description

xvi, 307 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

African social studies series ; v. 23.

Subject

Hausa (African people) > Ethnic identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9789004185425 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9004185429 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2010013403

OCLC

607613500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library