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

Other author Haour, Anne.
Other author Rossi, Benedetta.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionxvi, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesAfrican social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 23
African social studies series ; v. 23. ^A690914
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.
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LCCN 2010013403
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