Ending Slavery : Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania / Urs Peter Ruf.
Material type: TextSeries: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublisher: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resource (436 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9783933127495
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- Human rights -- Mauritania
- Slavery -- Mauritania
- Women slaves -- Mauritania
- Civil rights -- Mauritania
- Beendigung
- Geschichte
- Human rights
- Sklaverei
- Slavery
- Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Women slaves
- Droits de l'homme -- Mauritanie
- Esclavage -- Mauritanie
- Femmes esclaves -- Mauritanie
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Mauritanie
- Cultural studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- Human rights
- Slavery
- Women slaves
- Mauritania
- Sklaverei
- Beendigung
- Mauretanien
- Esclavage -- Mauritanie
- Droits de l'homme -- Mauritanie
- Femmes esclaves -- Mauritanie
- Geschichte
- (Produktform)Electronic book text
- (BISAC Subject Heading)LAN000000
- Gender Studies
- Violence
- Gender
- Violence, Gender, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
- EBK: eBook
- Cultural Studies
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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.
®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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