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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 |
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Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois