Download or read book The M tis of Senegal written by Hilary Jones and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Métis of Senegal is a history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism. Hilary Jones describes how the métis carved out a niche as middleman traders for European merchants. As the colonial presence spread, the métis entered into politics and began to assert their position as local elites and power brokers against French rule. Many of the descendants of these traders continue to wield influence in contemporary Senegal. Jones's nuanced portrait of métis ascendency examines the influence of family connections, marriage negotiations, and inheritance laws from both male and female perspectives.
Download or read book Citizens and Subjects written by Hilary Jones (Assistant professor history, colonialism, Africa, Senegal. Saint Paul, Minnesota) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal written by M. Diouf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars for their fresh perspectives on religious conversion, transnational migration, economic globalization, and the politics of education, power, and femininity in African Islam in Senegal.
Download or read book Senegal written by Debbie Nevins and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The westernmost country in mainland Africa, Senegal has a complex and varied history. Home to one of Africa's earliest recorded kingdoms in the early ninth century, Senegal was later colonized by both the Portuguese and the French. Since its independence in 1960, the country has managed to unite its various cultures and language traditions into a peaceful and stable society. Informative sidebars and colorful photographs accompany the text and allow readers to learn more about Senegal's rich culture.
Download or read book Senegal an African Nation Between Islam and the West written by Sheldon Gellar and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foreign Policy of Senegal written by W. A. E. Skurnik and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Saint in the City written by Allen F. Roberts and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saint in the Cityexamines the elaborate visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement based upon the mystical teachings of Sheikh Amadou Bamba (1953-1927). In the boldly visual city of Dakar, images abound despite the fact that Senegal is largely a Muslim country. Vibrant street murals, calligraphy and calligrams, didactic posters, drawings that protect and heal, advertising images, colourful clothing, Web sites, intricate glass paintings, and innovative architecture all attest to the transformative potency that expressive culture has for Mourides. One image is ubiquitous throughout urban Senegal: the portrait of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, based upon a colonial photograph from 1913. Sacred images "work" for Mourides, and as Bamba is a saint (Wali Allah, or "Friend of God" in Arabic), his portrait actively conveys powerful blessings called baraka that help people to address everyday difficulties, challenges, and goals.The Mouride Way is observed by over four million Senegalese and thousands more around the globe including increasing numbers of African Americans and others converting to this most African of Islamic paths. Amadou Bamba's pacifism, dignity, and self-reliance, as well as his emphasis on the sanctity of work, offer a view of Islam quite different from those currently suggested by Western media. Indeed,A Saint in the Cityreminds us that there are many faces of Islam in Africa and throughout the world. It also assists readers to reconsider misconceptions concerning the prohibition of images in Islam in light of the explosion of visual culture derived from a single photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba.A Saint in the Citygrows from a decade of interdisciplinary research and focuses upon nine contemporary artists who base their works upon the spiritual teachings of Amadou Bamba, regardless of their particular backgrounds, training, or styles. The book boldly transgresses the boundaries normally enforced between local and global, fine and popular arts, gallery and streets, historical and contemporary circumstances. An emphasis upon Mouride artists' own voices further decenters the narrative.Allen F. Roberts is professor of world arts and cultures and director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA. Mary Nooter Roberts is deputy director and chief curator of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Download or read book Senegal written by Janet H. Gritzner and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geography, history, people, culture, politics, and economy of Senegal, and considers the country's future in the world community.
Download or read book Senegal written by 晃弘·山村 and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le Senegal written by M. Oliv and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Senegalese Ethnomedicine A Linguistic and Ethnographic Study of Medical Modernities Between Senegal and Italy written by Sabina M. Perrino and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology examines how efforts to promote "traditional medicine" in postcolonial Senegal have opposed but ironically borrowed from Western biomedicine, redefining the role of the healer and the therapeutic process. In typical encounters, the healer produces a multi-modal text-structure made up of verbal and nonverbal cues, through which he reflexively locates himself in a historical-cosmographic space: he positions himself as a mediator in a "speech chain" that transfers curative advice and power from incorporeal beings to the patient. With this described, this research then examines diverse reflexive constructions of "modernity" in healer-patient therapeutic encounters, turning to three modernizing initiatives that have arisen since the 1980s: an ethnomedical center, Hopital Traditionnel de Keur Massar; an ethnomedical call-in radio program broadcast from Dakar on satellite-radio; and a nongovernmental organization named Associazione di Cooperazione Rurale in Africa e America Latina (Association of Rural Cooperation in Africa and Latin America), based in Italy and with branches in Senegal. All three initiatives redefine ethnomedicine as a secular, phytotherapeutic "tradition" that is based on the efficacy of indigenous plants rather than on the social-interpersonal bonds between healer and patient. The convergence among these three initiatives is understood in terms of the shared context of global economic changes that began in the 1980s, and specifically in relation to interventions by the Senegalese state, by the World Health Organization. This study also considers the divergence among these three initiatives in order to better understand the medical pluralism and hybridity within the category of what this study considers "alternative medical modernities." In short, this study reveals how Senegalese both locally oppose and incorporate hegemonic notions of globalizing Western biomedicine, and how, in particular, these processes play out at the level of healer-patient communication.
Download or read book Senegal a Visitor s Guide written by Senegal. Délégation générale au tourisme and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Senegal written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Senegal and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Senegal written by Elizabeth Berg and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the geography, history, economy, lifestyle, and religion of Senegal, as well as its people, languages, and festivals.
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Senegal written by Eric Ross and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Senegal written by Sheldon Gellar and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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