Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon / Edition 1

by Helen A. Regis

Overview

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 and spirit workers. Though sharing many terms of debate, Fulbe persons passionately argue about Muslim ideals and 'pagan' practices, about Fulbe tradition and national reform, and about local histories and global flows. In Fulbe culture, social worlds are articulated and transformed through narrative and embodied performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813338163
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	08/14/2002
Series:	Case Studies in Anthropology
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface — Introduction — Fulbeness, History, and Cultural Pluralism — Pulaaku and Embodiment in Everyday Life — On Cheap Cloth, Bad Sauce, and the Fragility of Marriage — Forging Islamic Manhood — Dangerous Affections: Mothers and Infants — Intimate Others: Cannibal Witches and Spirits — Domaayo and the World Bank — Conclusion