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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ruf, Urs Peter

Titel

Ending Slavery : Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania

Ist Teil von

• Kultur und soziale Praxis

Auflage

1st ed

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Originally presented as the author’s doctoral thesis: Bielefeld, 1998.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 9 Acknowledgements 15 Note on Transliteration 17 Introduction 19 Chapter 1. Approaching Slavery in Bn Society 27 Chapter 2. Changing Configurations of Hierarchy and Dependency 49 Chapter 3. Slave Women 93 Chapter 4. The Demography of Western Saharan Slavery 113 Chapter 5. Gender and Status in the Topography of Work 139 Chapter 6. The Historical Dynamics of Bn Economy 177 Chapter 7. Small Dams, Large Dams: Bn Land Tenure and Social Stratification 199 Chapter 8. The Difference in Identity 253 Chapter 9. Where Do They Go To? 285 Notes 295 Transliteration of Arabic Characters 395 Bibliography 397 Index 423
• »Ending Slavery« offers insights into the »how« of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics designed to bring this institution to an end. Underlying this study is empirical data gathered during two periods of field research in rural central Mauritania. The analysis of life histories of slaves and freed slaves, but also of tributaries and free Moors plays a key role in the book.
• Besprochen in: afrika spektrum, 2 (2000), Axel Harnet-Sievers Journal of African History, 1 (2001), Martin Klein The Maghreb Review, 25/3-4 (2000), John Wright Orient, 42/1 (2001), Ursel Clausen
• Also available in print form.
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• Urs Peter Ruf is at present working on questions of the socio-cultural identity of Moorish ex-slaves in the iron-ore industries of Mauritania and in rural Mali.
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