Oral literature from Africa has been the focus of many scholarly works for a several decades. However, little interest has been given to the verbal of women. This dissertation puts the verbal art of women, and especially the songs performed at the wedding by women for women, at …
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This dissertation examines the history of one branch of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal in West Africa founded by Shaykh Ibrahima Faty M'Backé (Maam Cerno). The Murids, the only indigenous Sufi order in sub-Saharan Africa, began to coalesce in the late 1870's just prior to F…
This dissertation draws from the social sciences, the humanities, and the field of medicine to chronicle how social life bears on forms of genetic knowledge. Relying on methods of ethnographic fieldwork, this research builds upon scholarship that takes seriously the ways genetic…
This study examines rural and urban women's knowledge and practice within the context of two decades of health sector reform in Senegal. It addresses the simultaneous influence of macro-level forces, such as international policy and national health reform, and micro-level social…
Identities--including ethnicities, nationalities, and regional and religious affiliations--influence visual arts throughout Africa. Artists also practice specific techniques and styles of art that have been developed to reflect these particular identities. Artists also develop t…
Young women who participate in Dakar's burgeoning, cross-class Islamist movement shape participant identities based on a desire for moral change, and not on a specific set of political or economic grievances. The Sunnite movement, which has proliferated since the mid-1990's larg…
My dissertation examines the history of the encounter between Islam and African local cultures, focusing on how the coming of Islam reshaped the lives of the local populations of the Middle Casamance. It retraces the changing spiritual geography of this region from African relig…
This dissertation examines the historical roots of the Muridiyya through an analysis of the internal dynamics of the development of Islam in 19 th century Senegal and a reflection on the changing meaning of Islam as agent of cultural and social change. I reconstruct the genesis …
In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal2014a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens wit…
In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal2014a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens wit…
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lin…
The Gambia & Senegal
by Lonely Planet Publications (Firm), Else, David
fromLonely Planet travel guide
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