Weaving through Islam in Senegal /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, N.C. :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the weaving workshops of Thiès and Ndem
- Social relationships and belief in Thiès and Ndem
- Weaving history from archaeology, travelogues and oral tradition
- Explanation of the study
- Book outline
- Beliefs, practices and innovations
- Discourse and belief
- Creating and implementing beliefs
- Signification, performativity and improvisation
- Discursive and material expression
- Historical and contemporary religious pluralism
- Sufism in north and west Africa
- Growth of Sufism in Senegambia
- The Muridiyya and Tijaaniyya
- Catholicism and indigenous religions
- French perspectives on religious affiliations
- Historical continuities
- Valued techniques from looms to beliefs
- Technical perfection and innovation
- Stringing the narrow loom
- Stringing the wide loom
- The search for cotton
- Discipline in weaving
- Quality of cloth
- Weaving and finishing touches
- Techniques and beliefs
- Islam, sorcery, and imagery in Thiès' home workshops
- Spirits and religious pluralism in Thiès: Djeneba and Makhtar
- Interpreting experiences through beliefs: Binta
- Shared beliefs in specific spirits
- Religious beliefs and imagery
- Imagery as a public sign of beliefs
- Baye Fall spirituality and an artisanal NGO in Ndem
- Rural exodus
- Community history
- Weaving lineages: the Diop family
- Artisanal and business sustainability
- Commitments to the project
- Conclusion
- Weaving as a focal point of beliefs
- Economic realities of weaving
- Continued research.