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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1. Verfasser: Ruf, Urs Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld Transcript Verlag [1999]
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Schriftenreihe:Kultur und soziale Praxis
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Zusammenfassung: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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Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
ISBN:383940049X
3933127491
9783839400494
9783933127495

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