Fulbe Voices

Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31589-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Reihe: Case Studies in Anthropology

Fulbe Voices is based on everyday conversations in the West African village of Domaayo, Cameroon, where men and women struggle with the multiple cultural contradictions and social tensions emerging from their varied perspectives as farmers and entrepreneurs, schoolboys and elders, married and free women, rulers and ruled, Muslim scholars a

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regis, Helen A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 FULBENESS, HISTORY, AND CULTURAL PLURALISM, 2 PULAAKU AND EMBODIMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 3 ON CHEAP CLOTH, BAD SAUCE, AND THE FRAGILITY OF MARRIAGE, 4 FORGING ISLAMIC MANHOOD, 5 DANGEROUS AFFECTIONS, 6 INTIMATE OTHERS, 7 DOMAAYO AND THE WORLD BANK, CONCLUSION

Über Autor(innen)

Helen A. Regis is assistant professor of anthropology at Louisiana State University. She is coauthor (with John Bartkowski) of Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era and is currently writing a book on race, politics, and performance in New Orleans.