Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Anne Haour; Benedetta Rossi

• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology, this book offers a compelling portrait of the emergence and evolution of Hausa identity in West Africa.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Contributors
Preface
Note on Language and Transcription
Chapter One Hausa Identity: Language, History and Religion
Chapter Two The Role of Comparative/Historical Linguistics in Reconstructing the Past: What Borrowed and Inherited Words Tell Us About the Early History of Hausa
Chapter Three Ancient Labels and Categories: Exploring the ‘Onomastics’ of Kano
Chapter Four More Rural than Urban? The Religious Content and Functions of Hausa Proverbs and Hausa Verbal Compounds
Chapter Five Being and Becoming Hausa in Ader
Chapter Six Kufan Kanawa, Niger: The Former Kano?
Chapter Seven Kirfi, Bauchi: An Archaeological Investigation of the Hausa Landscape
Chapter Eight The Hausa Textile Industry: Origins and Development in the Precolonial Period
Chapter Nine Clothing and Identity: How Can Museum Collections of Hausa Textiles Contribute to Understanding the Notion of Hausa Identity?
Chapter Ten God Made Me a Rapper: Young Men, Islam, and Survival in an Age of Austerity
Chapter Eleven Engendering a Hausa Vernacular Christian Practice
Chapter Twelve Hausa as a Process in Time and Space
Index