The Hausa of Nigeria
By: Frank A. Salamone
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780761847243; 9780761847250
Subjects: Social life and customs; Hausa (African people); Ethnic identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: wrestling with identity: from newbie to elder; title: Hausa states; title: Hausa shamans; title: Up close and personal in the field; title: Colonialism and the creation of ethnic identity; title: Indirect rule and the reinterpretation of tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri; title: Indirect rule continued; title: Religious change in a northern Nigerian emirate; title: Competitive conversion and its implications for modernized Nigeria; title: Religion as play: Bori, a friendly "witchdoctor"; title: Hausa Islamic practices; title: Hausa culture and personality; title: Erikson in Nigeria: exploring the universality of the theory of psychosocial development; title: Muslim African women and kinship; title: Hausa wrestling and ethnic boundaries; title: The Waziri and the thief: Hausa Islamic law in a Yoruba city, a case study from Ibadan, Nigeria; title: Student teachers and change; title: Children's games in Nigeria redux: a consideration of the "uses" of play; title: Dukawa views on death.