M Last

Biographic Data

ID38284
NAMEM Last
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMELast
SIGNATURELAST M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-0962-7171
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS227
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX9

  • Medical Ethnography over Time

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEAnthropology in Action2019Cited by: 3References: 5

    Too often, research into the health of a particular community is brief and superficial, focusing only on what is public and leaving the private health of women and children 'foggy'. By contrast, long-term anthropology can offer access to processes taking place within a local culture of illness. Here, an account of a community's experience of health over the past 50 years not only outlines the key changes as seen anthropologically but also shows h…

  • Frontiers in 19th-century northern Nigeria

    M LastARTICLECritical African Studies2015Cited by: 2References: 2

    This essay offers the ethnographic rationale for the original use of the term 'deep-rural' that Chuck Jędrej later adopted for the community he studied in the Ingessana Hills. In Hausaland (northern Nigeria), I use 'deep-rural' to denote the distinctive ecological and sociopolitical context of areas that are very marginal to the core of a centralized Muslim state. Such areas are out of everyday reach of the central government yet not entirely bey…

  • Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria

    M LastARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2015

  • Sects and Social Disorder

    Open AccessJudith-Ann Walker, M Last et al.BOOKSects and Social Disorder2014

    Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian, with consequences for long-term peacemaking

  • Contradictions in Creating a Jihadi Capital

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2013Cited by: 5References: 2

    The Sokoto caliphate in nineteenth-century northern Nigeria was an astonishing episode in the history of Africa: a huge, prosperous polity that created unity where none had existed before. Yet today its history is underexplored, sometimes ignored or even disparaged, both within Nigeria and in Europe and the U.S. Yet that history is extraordinary. Sokoto town was, and still is, an anomaly within Hausaland; built speedily on a "green-field" site as…

  • Medicine for uncertain futures

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2012

  • Another geography

    M LastARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2011Cited by: 1References: 5

    The paper describes, for the Hausa farmers of Gidan Jatau in northern Nigeria, the distinct ways in which they see and understand (a) their close and distant environment and (b) their bodies' anatomy and physiology. These ways result in 'another geography' - of both space and being - which, however, may no longer now have the resonance it had in the early 1970s when the author lived in Gidan Jatau for two years as a guest. At that time, the spiri…

  • Islam & Muslim Politics in Africa * Edited by B. F. Soares & R. Otayek

    M LastARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2010

  • Some Aspects of Islam in Africa * By lhringUTHMAN Sayyid Ahmad Ismail AL-Bili

    M LastARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2009

    Professor ʿUthman al-Bili taught Islamic and Middle Eastern history at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, ca.1971–1977 (where he was always known as Osman Sid Ahmed Ismail): hence the main focus of this short book are the protagonists of the Sokoto Caliphate. In addition there is a little material on the Sudan and on early Middle Eastern history, but more striking is his passionate defence of Islam as a religion spread by the word rather than by for…

  • Islam in Africa and the Middle East

    M LastARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2008

    Nehemiah Levtzion was an important member of the community of ‘northern’ historians of Muslim West Africa and the Middle East. Based in Israel and proficient in classical Arabic, he had a ‘take’ on the subject that was slightly different from that of some of his colleagues in his field: recent changes in Muslim thinking mattered to him and his compatriots, especially in his later years, but his apprenticeship in the West African world of Islam ha…

  • The Search for Security in Muslim Northern Nigeria

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEAfrica2008Cited by: 28References: 17

    The article puts forwards the argument that there is a pervasiveanxiety among Muslims over their security, both physical and spiritual, in today's northern Nigeria. It is an anxiety partly millenarian, partly political, that seeks to recreate a stronger sense of the 'core North' asdar al-Islam, with notionally 'closed' boundaries - just as it was in the pre-colonial Sokoto Caliphate. This has led first to the re-establishment, within twelve of Ni…

  • The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa * Edited by Scott S. Reese

    M LastARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2007

  • Islam and Colonialism

    M LastARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2007

    This is one of the most important books to have been written on Muslims living in colonial northern Nigeria. It analyses, in the main very sympathetically, how some of the elite—emirs, judges, ulema and the Western-educated—all came to justify in their writings their living and working as Muslims under Christian rule in the years between 1903 and 1945. The book would have been better reviewed by a Nigerian scholar, but few copies have reached nor…

  • Muslims and Christians in Nigeria

    M LastARTICLEThe Round Table2007Cited by: 11

    This essay offers an alternative analysis of Muslim – Christian relations in Nigeria, rejecting a 'clash-of-civilizations' approach as both too generalized and politically self-serving. A more nuanced analysis might focus on the social variables in the different sites of conflict and on the underlying factors, both historical and current. It is argued that, for the most part, Muslims and Christians have lived peacefully alongside each other in Ni…

  • Deno Leventis, 1938-2002

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEAfrica2003

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  • Reconciliation and Memory in Postwar Nigeria

    M LastCHAPTERViolence and Subjectivity2001

  • Dancing Histories

    M Last, John C MccallARTICLEAfrica2001Cited by: 3

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  • Healing the social wounds of war

    M LastARTICLEMedicine Conflict & Survival2000

    The healing of those hurt by war can take different forms, ranging from violence and vengeance to psychotherapy and humanitarian aid imposed from outside. This healing has been widely and critically discussed in the literature. Instead, the focus here is more on the way communities try to heal themselves long after the outside world has lost interest. In this context, resisting the oppressor becomes less important than recovery, and the past can …

  • La charia dans le Nord-Nigeria

    M LastARTICLEPolitique africaine2000Cited by: 9

    Cet article analyse brièvement l'application récente de la charia au Nord-Nigeria. Il met en évidence les facteurs qui ont conduit à l'instauration de cours islamiques, les réactions populaires à celles-ci et les possibles compromis politiques avec les États majoritairement chrétiens. Plutôt qu'un système de droit unique le Nigeria sera sans doute contraint de mettre en place des dispositifs juridiques différents d'un État à un autre. Les effets …

  • Children and the Experience of Violence

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEAfrica2000Cited by: 40References: 17

    Arising out of debates over 'children at risk' and the 'rights of the child', the article compares two contrasting childhoods within a single large society-the Hausa-speaking peoples of northern Nigeria. One segment of this society-the non-Muslim Maguzawa-refuse to allow their children to be beaten; the other segment, the Muslim Hausa, tolerate corporal punishment both at home and especially in Qur'anic schools. Why the difference? Economic as we…

  • Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa

    Open AccessM Last, Adell PattonARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

  • Embodying Colonial Memories

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1998Cited by: 1

    Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka In West Africa. Paul Stoller. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xii. 226 pp., photographs, notes, references, index

  • Putting Children First

    Open AccessM LastARTICLEDisasters1994Cited by: 4References: 7

    Save the Children Fund in 1923 and UNICEF in 1990 both declared that children must come first in receiving relief. Whereas SCF's call was a corporate credo for the world, for use whenever disaster struck, UNICEF's was offered as a strategic policy document applicable at all times. In contrast, the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a legally-binding document in the field of human rights, omitted all reference to giving such priorit…

  • From Pastoralist to Politician

    Open AccessPhilip Burnham, M LastARTICLECahiers d études africaines1994Cited by: 4

    P. Burnham & M. Last - Des pasteurs aux dignitaires : la question de l'aristocratie fulбe. Le terme « aristocrate » est souvent utilisé pour distinguer les Fulbe qui gouvernaient les émirats et les lamidats du Califat de Sokoto au XIXe siècle de leurs parents restés pasteurs. Cet article tente de montrer que cette distinction est inadéquate. En effet, nombre de détenteurs de charge loin d'être des aristocrates étaient choisis parmi les peuples va…

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