Telling stories, making histories : women, words, and Islam in nineteenth-century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate / Mary Wren Bivins.

Author/creator Bivins, Mary Wren
Format Book
Publication InfoPortsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 192 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
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. --Fulani Empire. --History.
Fulani Empire--Social conditions.
Nigeria, Northern--Social conditions.
Niger--Social conditions.

SeriesSocial history of Africa, 1099-8098
Social history of Africa. ^A292175
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [166]-184) and index.
LCCN 2006103355
ISBN9780325070131 (alk. paper)
ISBN032507013X (Heinemann cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780325070124 (alk. paper)
ISBN0325070121 (Heinemann paper : alk. paper)