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Book SynopsisThis book is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics, various other dimensions of Hausa life, minority group relationships, and creolization.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction - Wrestling with Identity: From Newbie to Elder Chapter 4 Chapter One - Hausa States Chapter 5 Chapter Two - Hausa Shaman Chapter 6 Chapter Three - Up Close and Personal in the Field Chapter 7 Chapter Four - Colonialism and the Creation of Ethnic Identity Chapter 8 Chapter Five - Indirect Rule and the Reinterpretation of Tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri Chapter 9 Chapter Six - Indirect Rule Continued Chapter 10 Chapter Seven - Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate Chapter 11 Chapter Eight - Competitive Converstion and Its Implicatiosn for Modernized Nigeria Chapter 12 Chapter Nine - Religion as Play: Bori, a Friendly "Witchdoctor" Chapter 13 Chapter Ten - Hausa Islamic Practices Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven - Hausa Culture and Personality Chapter 15 Chapter Twelve - Erikson in Nigeria: Exploring the Universality of the Theory of Psychosocial Development Chapter 16 Chapter Thirteen - Muslim African Women and Kinship Chapter 17 Chapter Fourteen - Hausa Wrestling and Ethnic Boundaries Chapter 18 Chapter Fifteen - The Waziri and the Thief: Hausa Islamic Law in a Yoruba City, A Case Study from Ibadan, Nigeria Chapter 19 Chapter Sixteen - Student Teachers and Change Chapter 20 Chapter Seventeen - Children's Games in Nigeria Redux: A Consideration of the "Uses" of Play Chapter 21 Chapter Eighteen - Dukawa Views on Death Chapter 22 Bibliography
