From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel. Benedetta Rossi traces the histori…
"Along with studying Nigeria's environmental, geographical conditions, the book discusses raw earth architecture in both vernacular and contemporary contexts. The possibilities of these methods of adapting to the contemporary language of architecture without losing the technical…
"Along with studying Nigeria's environmental, geographical conditions, the book discusses raw earth architecture in both vernacular and contemporary contexts. The possibilities of these methods of adapting to the contemporary language of architecture without losing the technical…
"Along with studying Nigeria's environmental, geographical conditions, the book discusses raw earth architecture in both vernacular and contemporary contexts. The possibilities of these methods of adapting to the contemporary language of architecture without losing the technical…
"Along with studying Nigeria's environmental, geographical conditions, the book discusses raw earth architecture in both vernacular and contemporary contexts. The possibilities of these methods of adapting to the contemporary language of architecture without losing the technical…
Part I: Incontinence and inequalities -- Living incontinence -- Laraba's story -- Fistula stigma -- Liminal wives -- Part II: Clinical encounters -- Beds, sixty minutes -- The "worst place to be a mother"--The indeterminable wait -- Part III: The marketplace of victimhood -- Ara…
"Obstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly nonexistent in the Global North. In contrast, Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanit…
""This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.""-Choice ""Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh…
