Gaudio Allah Made Us

Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1052-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Ethnography

A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in theHausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic lawrequires strict separation of the sexes and different rules ofbehavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life.
* The first ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa,and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamicworld
* Engagingly written, combining innovative, ethnographicnarrative with analyses of sociolinguistic transcripts, historicaltexts, and popular media, including video, film, newspapers, andsong-poetry
* Analyzes the social experiences and expressive culture of'yan daudu (feminine men in Nigerian Hausaland) in relationto local, national, and global debates over gender and sexuality atthe turn of the twenty-first century
* Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of"Outstanding Monograph"

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaudio, Rudolf Pell

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Orthography, Translation and Transcription xiii
1 Introducing 'Yan Daudu 1
2 People of the Bariki 29
3 Out in the Open 61
4 Women's Talk, Men's Secrets 89
5 Playing with Faith 117
6 Men on Film 143
7 Lost and Found in Translation 175
Epilogue: May God Keep a Secret 196
Glossary of Hausa terms 206
Bibliography 210
Index 228

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf P. Gaudio is Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Purchase, where he teaches courses in African, media and performance studies.