1st Edition
Fulbe Voices Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon
By Helen A. Regis
Copyright 2003
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
Biography
Regis, Helen A.
