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Islamic and caste knowledge practices among haalpilaar'en in Senegal : Between mosque and termite mound / R.M. Dilley

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International african library ; 30Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004Description: xv, 270p. : ill., maps ; 24cmISBN:
  • 0748619909
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.08996322 23
Contents:
The Mosque and the termite mound -- Ranks and categories: the emerge nce of a Haalpulaar social division of labour -- Historical origins and social pedigrees of craftsmen and musicians: genealogies of power and knowledge of the wild -- The white and the black: ideology and the rise to dominance of the Islamic clerics -- Accommodationist Sufi Islam and rites of passage: tensions and ambiguities -- The witch-hunter and the marabout: competing domains of knowledge and power -- The power of the word: the oral and the written -- Islamic reformers, Islamists and the Muslim community.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.

The Mosque and the termite mound -- Ranks and categories: the emerge nce of a Haalpulaar social division of labour -- Historical origins and social pedigrees of craftsmen and musicians: genealogies of power and knowledge of the wild -- The white and the black: ideology and the rise to dominance of the Islamic clerics -- Accommodationist Sufi Islam and rites of passage: tensions and ambiguities -- The witch-hunter and the marabout: competing domains of knowledge and power -- The power of the word: the oral and the written -- Islamic reformers, Islamists and the Muslim community.

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