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Concubines And Power

Name: Concubines And Power
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9780816641543
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Five Hundred Years In A Northern Nigerian Palace

Autor: Heidi Nast

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Editura: University of Minnesota Press

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The monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, was built circa 1500 and is today inhabited by more than one...

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Autor

Heidi Nast

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2004

Pagini

276

EAN

9780816641543

ISBN

0816641544

Enbook ID

04729507

Editura

University of Minnesota Press

Greutate

358

Dimensiuni

144 x 224 x 14

Descriere completă

The monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, was built circa 1500 and is today inhabited by more than one thousand persons. Historically, its secluded interior housed hundreds of concubines whose role in the politics, economics, and culture of Kano city-state has been largely overlooked. In this pioneering work, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell us much about a site like the palace, a place bereft of archaeological work or relevant primary sources. Drawing on extensive ethnographic work and mapping data, "Concubines and Power presents new evidence that palace concubines controlled the production of indigo-dyed cloth centuries belore men did. The women were also key players in the assessment and collection of the state's earliest grain taxes, forming a complex and powerful administrative hierarchy that used the taxes for palace community needs. Social forces undoubtedly shaped and changed concubinage for hundreds of years, but Nast shows how the women's reach extended far beyond the palace walls to the formation of the state itself.