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. Unde...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld
transcript Verlag
1999
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| Series: | Kultur und soziale Praxis
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| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (436 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783839400494 9783933127495 |
| Access: | Open Access |