Clothing and identity: how can museum collections of Hausa textiles contribute to understanding the notion of Hausa identity ?
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Worden, Sarah
Date published
July 10, 2010
Abstract
Hausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.
Series name
African Social Studies Series
Book title
Being and becoming Hausa: interdisciplinary perspectives
Editor
Haour, A
Rossi, E
Issue
23
Pagination
213-235
Publisher
BRILL publications
Place of publication
Leiden
Additional information
Related Organisation/s: BRILL publishers