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Title
Marabout women in Dakar: creating trust in a rural urban space |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/13403 |
Date
2008 |
Author(s)
Gemmeke, Amber Babke |
Abstract
This rich ethnographic study explores the life and work of successful marabout women in Dakar. it is set against the background of their private family lives, of developments in Senegalese society, and of global changes. While including female experts in spirit possession and plant-based healing, it also gives a rare insight in the work of women who offer Islamic knowledge such as Arabic astrology, numerology, divination and prayer sessions. With the analysis of marabout women's work this study sheds light on the ways in which women's authority is negotiated, legitimated, and publicly recognised in Dakar. The study focuses especially upon marabout women's strategies to gain their client's trust. Reference to rural areas is a significant element in this process. This study thus contributes to an understanding of a gendered way in which trust ans skepticism are related to marabout's work and of the the role of a connection between Dakar and the rural areas therein. |
Subject(s)
Gender; Globalisation; Migration; Religious anthropology; Sufism; Urban studies; West Africa |
Language
en |
Publisher
Lit Verlag; Leiden Institute of Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of the Humanities, Leiden University |
Type of publication
Doctoral thesis |
Format
application/pdf; application/pdf |
Repository
Leiden - Africanists at University of Leiden
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