Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania

Author:   Katherine A. Wiley
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253036216


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   10 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Katherine A. Wiley
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253036216


ISBN 10:   0253036216
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   10 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Language Introduction: I Will Make You My Servant: Social Status, Gender, and Work 1. From Black to Green: Changing Political Economy and Social Status in Kankossa 2. ""We Work for Our Lives"": Revaluing Femininity and Work in a Post-slavery Market 3. Joking Market Women: Critiquing and Negotiating Gender Roles and Social Hierarchy 4. Women's Market Strategies: Building Social Networks, Protecting Resources, and Managing Credit 5. Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value 6. Embodying and Performing Gender and Social Status through the Malafa (Mauritanian veil) Conclusion: Social Rank in the Neoliberal Era Glossary Bibliography Index"

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This book is rich in content and the lives of those occupying what is often considered as only a political category or a human-rights discourse become very real to the reader. Katherine Ann Wiley uses vignettes and anecdotes extremely effectively and her 'data' take on the personae of the real women she lived and worked with. -E. Ann McDougall, author of Marriage by Force?: Contestation Over Consent and Coercion in Africa Katherine Ann Wiley provides a complex account of how slavery practices and post-slavery conventions have been entangled with ambiguous colonial, postcolonial, and neoliberal moments to reframe ethnic and social status. -Hsain Ilahiane, author of The Historical Dictionary of the Berbers


This book is rich in content and the lives of those occupying what is often considered as only a political category or a human-rights discourse become very real to the reader. Katherine Ann Wiley uses vignettes and anecdotes extremely effectively and her `data' take on the personae of the real women she lived and worked with. -E. Ann McDougall, author of Marriage by Force?: Contestation Over Consent and Coercion in Africa Katherine Ann Wiley provides a complex account of how slavery practices and post-slavery conventions have been entangled with ambiguous colonial, postcolonial, and neoliberal moments to reframe ethnic and social status. -Hsain Ilahiane, author of The Historical Dictionary of the Berbers


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Katherine Ann Wiley is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared in Africa and Africa Today.

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