The Hausa of Nigeria

Description

The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. It is an ethnographic reflection of intense field work in Yauri and the surrounding areas that border it, as well as many trips to archives, libraries, and interview sites. It is also the result of discussions with colleagues, especially Salamone's mentor, Charles Frantz, who directed Salamone to Nigeria and who has aided the author's many years of study of the Hausa over time. Frantz's work on ethnicity, as well as ethics in anthropology, has served to provide a standard for Salamone's own endeavors. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics and various other dimensions of Hausa life, as well as minority group relationships and creolization. Dedication Contents List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction—Wrestling with Identity: From Newbie to Elder 1 Hausa States 2 Hausa Shamans 3 Up Close and Personal in the Field 4 Colonialism and the Creation of Ethnic Identity 5 Indirect Rule and the Reinterpretation of Tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri 6 Indirect Rule Continued 7 Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate 8 Competitive Conversion and Its Implications for Modernized Nigeria 9 Religion as Play: Bori, a Friendly “Witchdoctor” 10 Hausa Islamic Practices 11 Hausa Culture and Personality 12 Erikson in Nigeria: Exploring the Universality of the Theory of Psychosocial Development 13 Muslim African Women and Kinship 14 Hausa Wrestling and Ethnic Boundaries 15 The Waziri and the Thief: Hausa Islamic Law in a Yoruba City, a Case Study from Ibadan, Nigeria 16 Student Teachers and Change 17 Children’s Games in Nigeria Redux: A Consideration of the “Uses” of Play 18 Dukawa Views on Death Bibliography