Being and becoming Hausa
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi
Series: African social studies series -- v. 23; African social studies series -- v. 23.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9789004185425
Subjects: Hausa (African people); Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hausa identity : language, history and religion / Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi; title: 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; title: Ancient labels and categories : exploring the 'onomastics' of Kano / Murray Last; title: More rural than urban? : the religious content and functions of Hausa proverbs and Hausa verbal compounds / Joseph McIntyre; title: Being and becoming Hausa in Ader / Benedetta Rossi; title: Kufan Kanawa, Niger : the former Kano? / Anne Haour; title: Kirfi, Bauchi : an archaeological investigation of the Hausa landscape / Abubakar Sule Sani; title: The Hausa textile industry : origins and development in the precolonial period / Marisa Candotti; title: Clothing and identity : how can museum collections of Hausa textiles contribute to understanding the notion of Hausa identity? / Sarah Worden; title: God made me a rapper : young men, Islam, and survival in an age of austerity / Adeline Masquelier; title: Engendering a Hausa vernacular Christian practice / Barbara Cooper; title: Hausa as a process in time and space / John E.G. Sutton.