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

By:

Ruf, Urs Peter [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783839400494
383940049X
9783933127495
3933127491

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Ending slavery.DDC classification:

306.362 23

LOC classification:

HT1399.M38

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9.1c

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EBSCOhost

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.

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Summary: ®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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®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.

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.

In English.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 27 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-422) and index.

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