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Muslim Families in Global Senegal

Money Takes Care of Shame

By: Beth Buggenhagen

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Muslim Families in Global Senegal

Money Takes Care of Shame

By: Beth Buggenhagen

“A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar . . . [an] extremely fine-grained analysis of women’s exchange networks.” —Robert Launay, Northwestern University Senegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in Global Senegal focuses on trade and the transmission of enduring social value though cloth, videos of life-cycle rituals, and religious offerings. Highlighting women’s participation in these networks and the financial strategies they rely on, Beth Buggenhagen reveals the deep connections between economic profits and ritual and social authority. Buggenhagen discovers that these strategies are not responses to a dispersed community in crisis, but rather produce new roles, wealth, and worth for Senegalese women in all parts of the globe. “A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange.” —Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University “While the author’s focus is on the transformation in the role of women both within the family network and in the marketplace, the book allows readers to better understand the impact of globalism on the citizens of Senegal . . . Recommended.” —Choice

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Indiana University Press

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0253005353

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The Future Is in Your Hands

Portrait Photography from Senegal

By: Beth A. Buggenhagen

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Portrait Photography from Senegal

By: Beth A. Buggenhagen

In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration. The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for photography to highlight the role of affect in portraiture practices. Moving from the colonial to the newly independent Senegal, Beth Buggenhagen combines museum, ethnographic, and archival research on photography's past with lens-based artists who address themes of separation, visibility, rupture, and repatriation through portraiture. Buggenhagen, in collaboration with Senegalese photographers, explores how photographs, as visual and material objects, migrate themselves and, like the bodies they represent, create a record not only of lived experiences but also of the cycle of migration for this labor-exporting country. By complicating the history of portraiture in Senegal, The Future Is in Your Hands reveals the enduring power of images and the efforts under way to keep this art form safely in Senegalese hands.

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Muslim Families in Global Senegal

Money Takes Care of Shame

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Money Takes Care of Shame

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The Future Is in Your Hands

Portrait Photography from Senegal

By: Beth A. Buggenhagen

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Creating African Fashion Histories

Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices

By: JoAnn McGregor,Heather M. Akou,Nicola Stylianou

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Creating African Fashion Histories

Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices

By: JoAnn McGregor,Heather M. Akou,Nicola Stylianou

Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.

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Muslim Families in Global Senegal

Muslim Families in Global Senegal

The Future Is in Your Hands

The Future Is in Your Hands

Muslim Families in Global Senegal

Muslim Families in Global Senegal

The Future Is in Your Hands

The Future Is in Your Hands

Creating African Fashion Histories

Creating African Fashion Histories

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