Allah Made Us (eBook)

Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City

Rudolf Pell Gaudio (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-5662-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law requires strict separation of the sexes and different rules of behavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life. The first ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa, and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamic world Engagingly written, combining innovative, ethnographic narrative with analyses of sociolinguistic transcripts, historical texts, and popular media, including video, film, newspapers, and song-poetry Analyzes the social experiences and expressive culture of yan daudu (feminine men in Nigerian Hausaland) in relation to local, national, and global debates over gender and sexuality at the turn of the twenty-first century Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "e;Outstanding Monograph"e;

Autor

Rudolf P. Gaudio is Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Purchase, where he teaches courses in African, media and performance studies.

Inhalt

List of Figures viii

Acknowledgments ix

Notes on Orthography, Translation and Transcription xiii

1 Introducing 'Yan Daudu 1

2 People of the Bariki 29

3 Out in the Open 61

4 Women's Talk, Men's Secrets 89

5 Playing with Faith 117

6 Men on Film 143

7 Lost and Found in Translation 175

Epilogue: May God Keep a Secret 196

Glossary of Hausa terms 206

Bibliography 210

Index 228

Rezensionen

"This text provides some challenging insights into the whole arena
of identity construction at individual and group levels."
(PsycCRITIQUES, January 2010)



"Both scholarly and enthralling, Allah Made Us succeeds
in introducing us to a fascinating world usually hidden from
Western view, as well as making a strong case for how sexual and
gender expression and--its transgression--is deeply
embedded in individual cultures." (Gay & Lesbian Review,
November 2009)

"Gaudio's splendid book is a candid portrait of men practicing
identities that confront Western and Islamic ideologies of gender
and sexuality: Such is their daring, paradoxical bid for
cultural citizenship."

-Stephen William Foster, author of Cosmopolitan
Desire

"Allah Made Us insightfully explores 'sexual
citizenship' and displays Gaudio's extraordinary skill in
revealing language as both a medium of participation by sexual
outlaws and as an instrument of stigmatizing control by
outsiders."

-Paul V. Kroskrity, University of California, Los
Angeles

"Allah Made Us sets new standards in the analysis of
African sexualities. Rudi Gaudio accomplishes this feat in a
way that is accessible for general readers, even while he
contributes to specialist debates. A major
achievement."

-Donald L. Donham, University of California, Davis

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2011
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Ethnography
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Ethnography
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Ethnography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Afrika /Anthropologie • Anthropologie • Anthropologie / Geschlechterfragen u. Sexualität • Anthropologie / Geschlechterfragen u. Sexualität • Anthropology • Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality • gay studies, queer, ethnography, gender, sexuality, sociolinguistics, Islam, Muslim, Hausa, Africa • Historical & Regional Anthropology • Historische u. regionale Anthropologie • Kulturanthropologie • Linguistic Anthropology • Linguistische Anthropologie • Sozialanthropologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-5662-3 / 1444356623
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-5662-5 / 9781444356625