Ending Slavery
Ending Slavery Urs Peter Ruf Ending Slavery. Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. Die Deutsche Bibliothek – CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Ruf, Urs Peter: Ending slavery : hierarchy, dependency and gender in Central Mauritania / Urs Peter Ruf. – Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 1999 Zugl.: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 1998 ISBN 3–933127–49–1 © 1999 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Typeset by: digitron GmbH, Bielefeld Cover Layout: orange|rot, Bielefeld Printed by: Digital Print, Witten ISBN 3–933127–49–1 5 Contents Preface . 9 Acknowledgements . 15 Note on Transliteration . 17 Introduction . 19 Chapter 1 Approaching Slavery in Bı¯z.a¯n Society . 27 Theorising Slavery . 27 Slavery and Social Hierarchy in Bı¯z.a¯n Society . 36 A Methodology of Rural Slave System Studies . 44 Chapter 2 Changing Configurations of Hierarchy and Dependency . 49 Methodological Considerations . 50 Contrasting Life Stories . 56 Exploring the Change . 78 Chapter 3 Slave Women . 93 Tent Slaves and Female Slave Affection . 93 Slave-Master Milk Kinship . 94 Concubinage . 99 Status and Split Origin . 105 Chapter 4 The Demography of Western Saharan Slavery . 113 Africa and the Slave Trades . 113 Numbering Su¯da¯n . 126 Sex, Gender and Servile Demography . 136 6 Chapter 5 Gender and Status in the Topography of Work . 139 Gendered Labour . 139 Domains of Work . 150 Gender, Status and the Locus of Work . 170 Chapter 6 The Historical Dynamics of Bı¯z.a¯n Economy . 177 Gum and Guinée . 177 The Colonial Challenge to Pastoral Economy . 184 Wage Labour and Migration . 190 Chapter 7 Small Dams, Large Dams: Bı¯z.a¯n Land Tenure and Social Stratification .
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