Muslim Families in Global Senegal – Money Takes Care of Shame
Autor Beth A. Buggenhagenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 feb 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253223678
ISBN-10: 0253223679
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 21 b&w illustrations, 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253223679
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 21 b&w illustrations, 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Cuprins
Acknowledgements; Names and RelationshipsPrologue: Welcome to Khar Yalla; 1. Global Senegal; 2. Homes and their Histories; 3. The Promise of Paradise; 4. A Tale of Two Sisters; 5. A Lamb Slaughtered; 6. Home Economics; 7. Only Trouble; EpilogueGlossary of Arabic and Wolof Terms; Index
Recenzii
"While the author's focus is on the transformation in the role of women both within the family network and in the marketplace, the book allows readers to better understand the impact of globalism on the citizens of Senegal. ... Recommended." Choice, August 2012
"A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange." Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University
"A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar.... Provides not only a wealth of detail but extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks, both in the domains of commerce but especially in ritual contexts." Robert Launay, Northwestern University
"While the author's focus is on the transformation in the role of women both within the family network and in the marketplace, the book allows readers to better understand the impact of globalism on the citizens of Senegal. ... Recommended." Choice, August 2012 "A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange." Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University "A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar... Provides not only a wealth of detail but extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks, both in the domains of commerce but especially in ritual contexts." Robert Launay, Northwestern University
"A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange." Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University
"A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar.... Provides not only a wealth of detail but extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks, both in the domains of commerce but especially in ritual contexts." Robert Launay, Northwestern University
"While the author's focus is on the transformation in the role of women both within the family network and in the marketplace, the book allows readers to better understand the impact of globalism on the citizens of Senegal. ... Recommended." Choice, August 2012 "A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange." Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University "A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar... Provides not only a wealth of detail but extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks, both in the domains of commerce but especially in ritual contexts." Robert Launay, Northwestern University
Notă biografică
Beth Buggenhagen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. She is editor (with Anne-Maria Makhulu and Stephen Jackson) of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities.
Descriere
Discusses social and moral values in the global Senegalese community