Ending Slavery :Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania ( Kultur und soziale Praxis )

Publication subTitle :Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania

Publication series :Kultur und soziale Praxis

Author: Ruf Urs Peter  

Publisher: transcript-Verlag‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9783839400494

Subject: H0 Linguistics

Keyword: 语言学

Language: ENG

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»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.

Chapter

Chapter 2. Changing Configurations of Hierarchy and Dependency

Methodological Considerations

Contrasting Life Stories

Exploring the Change

Chapter 3. Slave Women

Tent Slaves and Female Slave Affection

Slave-Master Milk Kinship

Concubinage

Status and Split Origin

Chapter 4. The Demography of Western Saharan Slavery

Africa and the Slave Trades

Numbering Sūdān

Sex, Gender and Servile Demography

Chapter 5. Gender and Status in the Topography of Work

Gendered Labour

Domains of Work

Gender, Status and the Locus of Work

Chapter 6. The Historical Dynamics of Bīẓān Economy

Gum and Guinée

The Colonial Challenge to Pastoral Economy

Wage Labour and Migration

Chapter 7. Small Dams, Large Dams: Bīẓān Land Tenure and Social Stratification

Land Tenure: the Legal Framework

Case Studies

Land Tenure, Gender and Relations of Domination

Chapter 8. The Difference in Identity

The Politics of Ḥarāntīn Identity

Marking Difference, Marking Identity

Being a Part or Being Apart?

Chapter 9. Where Do They Go To?

Notes

Transliteration of Arabic Characters

Bibliography

Index

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