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Item Details
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THE FULBE VOICES
MARRIAGE, ISLAM, AND MEDICINE IN NORTHERN CAMEROON |
| By: |
Helen A. Regis |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£37.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813340357 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813340357 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
13 August, 2002 |
| Series: |
Westview Case Studies in Anthropology |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Examining the diverse Fulbe culture of Cameroon, the author challenges the idea that culture is an integrated whole as opposed to a compilation of coexisting practices and beliefs. |
| Synopsis: |
Examining the diverse Fulbe culture of Cameroon, the author challenges the idea that culture is an integrated whole as opposed to a compilation of coexisting practices and beliefs.. Contemporary Fulbe identity is rooted in a history of nomadic pastoralism, migration, slave trading, and religious jihads, even though the Fulbe today are sedentary farmers and merchants. Much of The Fulbe of Northern Cameroon is concerned, then, with defining what it means to be "Fulbe" in a plural society composed of people of diverse physical types, with tensions between Islamic and non-Islamic elements and between former rulers and former slaves. In this book, central Fulbe beliefs and practices are illuminated through consideration of key moments in the life cycle: marriage, circumcision, and birth. Supernatural sources of illness are also considered for their effects on the social fabric of families and villages. One conclusion of the book is to challenge the idea of culture as an integrated whole, to see it rather as composed of a diversity of coexisting practices and beliefs. 0813338166 Fulbe Voices : Marriage, Islam, and Medicine in Northern Cameroon |
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Illustrations, maps, ports. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Westview Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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