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Ending Slavery : Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania / Urs Peter Ruf.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2015]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839400494
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.362 22
LOC classification:
  • HT1399.M38 R84 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Approaching Slavery in Bīẓān Society -- Chapter 2. Changing Configurations of Hierarchy and Dependency -- Chapter 3. Slave Women -- Chapter 4. The Demography of Western Saharan Slavery -- Chapter 5. Gender and Status in the Topography of Work -- Chapter 6. The Historical Dynamics of Bīẓān Economy -- Chapter 7. Small Dams, Large Dams: Bīẓān Land Tenure and Social Stratification -- Chapter 8. The Difference in Identity -- Chapter 9. Where Do They Go To? -- Notes -- Transliteration of Arabic Characters -- Bibliography -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Backlist 2000-2015Summary: »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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Approaching Slavery in Bīẓān Society -- Chapter 2. Changing Configurations of Hierarchy and Dependency -- Chapter 3. Slave Women -- Chapter 4. The Demography of Western Saharan Slavery -- Chapter 5. Gender and Status in the Topography of Work -- Chapter 6. The Historical Dynamics of Bīẓān Economy -- Chapter 7. Small Dams, Large Dams: Bīẓān Land Tenure and Social Stratification -- Chapter 8. The Difference in Identity -- Chapter 9. Where Do They Go To? -- Notes -- Transliteration of Arabic Characters -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

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