Being and Becoming Hausa

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18542-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in African studies, notions of ethnicity and religious belief, and approaches to the African past; as well as historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and linguists of the Hausa area, and West Africa more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haour, Anne

Rossi, Benedetta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Über Autor(innen)

Rossi, Benedetta
Benedetta Rossi is RCUK Fellow at the School of History of the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on the historical anthropology of Hausa and Tuareg societies in Niger and Northern Nigeria. She has published on development, migration, and slavery, and is the editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool, 2009).

Haour, Anne
Anne Haour is a Lecturer in the Arts & Archaeology of Africa at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. An archaeologist, she has written on the West African past and developed theoretical questions in several publications, including Rulers, warriors, traders, clerics: the central Sahel and the North Sea, AD 800-1500 (Oxford, 2007).

Anne Haour is a Lecturer in the Arts & Archaeology of Africa at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. An archaeologist, she has written on the West African past and developed theoretical questions in several publications, including Rulers, warriors, traders, clerics: the central Sahel and the North Sea, AD 800-1500 (Oxford, 2007).

Benedetta Rossi is RCUK Fellow at the School of History of the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on the historical anthropology of Hausa and Tuareg societies in Niger and Northern Nigeria. She has published on development, migration, and slavery, and is the editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool, 2009).