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Mawri (African people) --- Bori (Cult) --- Mawri (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Bori (Culte) --- Religion. --- Religion --- Dogondoutchi (Niger) --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Cults

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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 Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.

Islam --- Women --- Muslim women --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Social conditions. --- Dogondoutchi (Niger) --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Social conditions --- Muslimahs

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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 “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral. Attending to the temporalities of emerging rather than settled facts, they put the stress on the temporal tactics, social commitments, material connections, dispositional orientations, and affective circuits that emerge in the meantime even in the most desperate times.

Civilization, Modern --- Social change. --- Time --- Social aspects. --- Anthropology (General), Sociology, Cultural Studies (General). --- Social change --- Social aspects

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""A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world."" Dorothy Ko, Barnard College While there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles of cultural, moral, and political value, little scholarly attention has been paid to cross-cultural understandings of dirt and undress, despite their equally important role in the fashioning of identity and difference. The essays in this absorbing and thought

Human body --- Bathing customs --- Hygiene --- Nudity --- Clothing and dress --- Bathing beaches --- Baths --- Body care --- Cleanliness --- Personal body care --- Personal cleanliness --- Personal hygiene --- Medicine, Preventive --- Health --- Sanitation --- Nakedness --- Nude --- Nudism --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Social aspects --- Care and hygiene

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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 development of the academic study of Africa. Critical Terms for the Study of Africa considers the legacies that have shaped our understanding of the continent and its place within the conceptual grammar of contemporary world affairs. Written by a distinguished group of scholars, the essays compiled in this volume take stock of African studies today and look toward a future beyond its fraught intellectual and political past. Each essay discusses one of our most critical terms for talking about Africa, exploring the trajectory of its development while pushing its boundaries. Editors Gaurav Desai and Adeline Masquelier balance the choice of twenty-five terms between the expected and the unexpected, calling for nothing short of a new mapping of the scholarly field. The result is an essential reference that will challenge assumptions, stimulate lively debate, and make the past, present, and future of African Studies accessible to students and teachers alike. (provided by publisher)

Africa.