Ending Slavery: Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania

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. Underl...

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Main Author: Ruf, Urs Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:German
Published: transcript Verlag 1999
Series:Kultur und soziale Praxis
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Online Access:DE-B1533
DE-898
DE-859
DE-861
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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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9783839400494