Veiling in Africa

Herausgeber: Renne, Elisha P

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Produktbeschreibung

Elisha P. Renne is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria (IUP, 2010).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780253008206
• ISBN-10: 0253008204
• Artikelnr.: 36124583

Autorenporträt

edited by Elisha P. Renne, with contributions by Laura Fair, Susan J. Rasmussen, Leslie Wahl Rabine, Adeline Masquelier, Hauwa Mahdi, Peri M. Klemm, Amal H. Fadlalla

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Veiling/Counter-Veiling in sub-Saharan Africa Elisha Renne
Part I. Veiling Histories & Modernities
1. Veiling, Fashion and Social Mobility: A Century of Change in Zanzibar
Laura Fair
2. Veiling Without Veils: Modesty and Reserve in Tuareg Cultural Encounters
Susan Rasmussen
3. Interwined Veiling Histories in Nigeria Elisha Renne
Part II. Veiling & Fashion
4. Religious Modesty, Fashionable Glamour, and Cultural Text: Veiling in
Senegal
Leslie Rabine
5. Modest Bodies, Stylish Selves: Fashioning Virtue in Niger Adeline
Masquelier
6. "Should a Good Muslim Cover Her Face?" Pilgrimage, Veiling, and
Fundamentalisms in Cameroon José C. M. van Santen
Part III. Veiling/Counter-Veiling
7. Invoking Hijab: The Power Politics of Spaces and Employment in Nigeria
Hauwa Mahdi
8. "We Grew Up Free but Here We Have to Cover Our Faces": Veiling among
Oromo Refugees in Eastleigh, Kenya Peri M. Klemm
9. Vulnerability Unveiled: Lubna's Pants and Humanitarian Visibility on the
Verge of Sudan's Secession Amal Hassan Fadlalla
List of Contributors
Index