The meantime represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of t...Daugiau...
The meantime represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of t...Daugiau...
The meantime represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-May-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226624204)
Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-May-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226624341)
Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Dec-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226548975)
For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders’ wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the d...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Dec-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226548838)
For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders’ wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the d...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jun-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826356987)
A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this...Daugiau...
The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions about what is disti...Daugiau...
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on...Daugiau...
Hansjörg Dilger, Angelika Wolf, John M. Janzen, Kristin Peterson, Viola Hörbst, Abdoulaye Kane, Adeline Masquelier, Adam Mohr, Marja Tiilikainen
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Oct-2012, Hardback, Leidėjas: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253357090)
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Mar-2011, Hardback, Leidėjas: Five Continents Editions, ISBN-13: 9788874395651)
This book of exquisite duotone photographs looks at the Bori, a West African shamanist cult centered on possession by the spirits of ancestors. Its followers, priests (also known as Bori), and assistants are clairvoyants or faith healers. They perfor...Daugiau...
In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awals message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who h...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253353665)
In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awals message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who h...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Dec-2005, Hardback, Leidėjas: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253346285)
A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world. -- Dorothy Ko, Barnard CollegeWhile there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles o...Daugiau...
A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world. -- Dorothy Ko, Barnard CollegeWhile there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Mar-2001, Hardback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822326335)
An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam, colonialism, and the state. Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Mar-2001, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822326397)
An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam, colonialism, and the state. Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is...Daugiau...
