Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal

Johnson, Michelle Cecilia

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Title:	Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal
Author(s):	Johnson, Michelle Cecilia
Doctoral Committee Chair(s):	Gottlieb, Alma
Department / Program:	Anthropology
Discipline:	Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree:	Ph.D.
Genre:	Dissertation
Subject(s):	Anthropology, Cultural
Abstract:	The dynamic interplay between Mandinga personhood and religious identity is currently being played out through life course rituals, including the naming of infants, the "writing-on-the-hand" ceremony, initiation and circumcision, Islamic healing, pilgrimage, and funerals. It is also creating tensions between men and women, elders and youth, and between "traditionalists"---those who practice a syncretic version of Islam---and those who uphold Islam as practiced in Saudi Arabia as a "truer" or "purer" path.
Issue Date:	2002
Type:	Text
Language:	English
Description:	380 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85243
Other Identifier(s):	(MiAaPQ)AAI3044128
Date Available in IDEALS:	2015-09-25
Date Deposited:	2002