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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah Hoechner (Université Libre de Bruxelles)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Volume: 54 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781108425292ISBN 10: 1108425291 Pages: 286 Publication Date: 15 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on translation and anonymization; 1. Porridge, piety, and patience: Qur'anic schooling in northern Nigeria; 2. Fair game for unfair accusations? Discourses about Qur'anic students; 3. 'Secular schooling is schooling for the rich!' Inequality and educational change in northern Nigeria; 4. Peasants, privations, and piousness: how boys become Qur'anic students; 5. Inequality at close range: domestic service for the better-off; 6. Concealment, asceticism, and cunning Americans: how to deal with being poor? 7. Mango medicine and morality: pursuing a respectable position within society; 8. Spiritual security services in an insecure setting: Kano's 'prayer economy'; 9. Roles, risks, and reproduction: what almajiri education implies for society and for the future; Glossary; Abbreviations; Annex: synopsis 'Duniya Juyi Juyi – How Life Goes'; Bibliography; Index.ReviewsAdvance praise: 'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois 'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois 'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois `As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois 'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois 'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois Author InformationHannah Hoechner is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp and a research associate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford and has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Nigeria, Senegal, and the US. Her work has been published in Africa, Children's Geographies, Qualitative Research, the International Journal for Social Research Methodology, the European Journal of Development Research, and Afrique Contemporaine. As part of her work in Nigeria, she has produced the participatory docu-drama 'Duniya Juyi Juyi – How Life Goes', which won the AFRICAST 2012 Special Award 'Participatory Video for Development'. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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