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

Catalog Data

Author:
Bivins, Mary Wren  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Fulani Empire
Nigeria, Northern
Niger
Date:
2007
C2007
19th century
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 cmarital crisis -- Womenfolk take heed! Wives and the lessons of Islamic reform -- Telling stories, making history: women, narrative, and knowledge in nineteenth-century Hausaland
Topic:
Women, Hausa--Social conditions  Search this
Women, Hausa--Language--History  Search this
Women, Hausa--Intellectual life  Search this
Storytelling--History  Search this
Muslim women--Social conditions  Search this
Sex role--History  Search this
Islam--Social aspects--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_965931