Allah Made Us Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City

by Gaudio, Rudolf Pell

• ISBN13: 9781405152518
• ISBN10: 1405152516
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notes on Orthography, Translation and Transcription	p. xiii
Introducing 'Yan Daudu	p. 1
People of the Bariki	p. 29
Out in the Open	p. 61
Women's Talk, Men's Secrets	p. 89
Playing with Faith	p. 117
Men on Film	p. 143
Lost and Found in Translation	p. 175
Epilogue: May God Keep a Secret	p. 196
Glossary of Hausa terms	p. 206
Bibliography	p. 210
Index	p. 228
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