Barbara M Cooper
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 119524 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barbara M Cooper |
| PRENOMES | Barbara M |
| SOBRENOME | Cooper |
| ASSINATURA | COOPER B M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5136-8783 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Delicacy of Dreams in Colonial Niger
From 1933 to the 1950s, the male students who attended the William Ponty Normal School wrote essays in French on a variety of ethnographic topics. The 1944–45 cohort were invited to write a memoir on dreams, a topic which one student characterised as “one of the most delicate in the life of the native”. In this article I explore the “delicacy” of dreams at the close of World War Two as seen through the notebooks of three Ponty students from Niger…
An appreciation of the gifts of Jane Guyer
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput Covid-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021
Objectives. To identify promising practices for implementing COVID-19 vaccination sites. Methods. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assessed high-throughput COVID-19 vaccination sites across the United States, including Puerto Rico, after COVID-19 vaccinations began. Site assessors conducted site observations and interviews with site staff. Qualitative data were compiled and themat…
Genres et générations en difficulté dans le Sahel contemporain
Nombre de décideurs politiques qui s'intéressent au Sahel ont tendance à se concentrer sur la croissance démographique et les « risques sécuritaires » de cette région. En portant notre attention sur une échelle plus intime, il devient possible d'éclairer les choix que font les individus et les familles à la lumière des contraintes qui pèsent sur leurs déplacements, sur leur accès à la production et sur les perspectives qu'ils ont de pouvoir se ma…
Women in West African History
Across West Africa up to the 19th century, titled positions for women ensured that women’s interests could be voiced and their disputes regulated. Women often had major roles as brokers and intermediaries in trade centers along the Saharan and Atlantic littorals, contributing to the emergence of powerful Euro-African families. Nevertheless, women were particularly vulnerable to the depredations of the trans-Saharan and Atlantic slave trades. Beca…
“Our Anglo-Saxon Colleagues”
Traveling Companions
This article, part of a historical study of childbirth in the Sahel, draws upon oral interviews, ethnographic materials, and studies of midwifery to explore placenta burial in Niger. In the region the placenta is often referred to as the "traveling companion" that ushers the new human from one world to the next. Only through proper respect toward the placenta by means of careful burial can a woman's future fertility be protected. The importance o…
The Sahel in West African History
The Sahel or Sahil is in a sense the “coast” of the Sahara and its cities major “ports” in trade circuits linking long-standing regional exchange in the products of different ecozones to the markets of the Mediterranean through the trans-Saharan trade. Despite botanical diversity and the capacity to support high concentrations of humans and livestock, the productivity of this region depends upon a single unpredictable annual rainy season. Long- a…
Olufemi Vaughan. Religion and the Making of Nigeria
The vast literature devoted to the complex political dynamics of Nigeria ranges from quite superficial media treatments featuring reified ethnic conflict to more nuanced scholarly works assessing the tensions between religious authority and the modern liberal state. Much of this work is insufficiently historical or is mired in local or temporal particularity. Olufemi Vaughan’s latest work, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, provides a very welco…
American Missions in Wartime French West Africa
This chapter explores the implications of World War II for the perception of American missionaries in French colonial Africa both during and after the war. The Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), an interdenominational “faith mission” staffed by British, American, Canadian, and New Zealand citizens, found its work in Niger caught up on the complex dynamics of Vichy Africa. Tagged as “British” by the French colonial administration of Niger, the mission …
Women and Gender
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a period of turbulence and change in Africa; men and women navigated that turbulence in part by redefining gender. Power in African societies has historically been linked to seniority determined by age, sexuality, reproductive capacity, spiritual aptitude, physical strength, and wealth. Individuals have acted to reshape their horizons of possibility by jockeying for seniority through shifting means over…
De quoi la crise démographique au Sahel est-elle le nom
Les femmes nigériennes ont le taux de fécondité le plus élevé d'Afrique subsaharienne, une statistique qui contribue à la pauvreté et aux perturbations politiques dans la région. Les données nationales nous renseignent cependant bien peu sur les expériences individuelles de la fécondité. Ce texte approche les récentes études démographiques à partir d'un travail anthropologique et historique plus large sur le Sahel. Il s'agit de montrer qu'au Nige…
Women Dancing on Water
Journal Article Women Dancing on Water: A Diasporic Feminist Fantastic? Get access Brenda Cooper Brenda Cooper University of Cape Town, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 6, Issue 2, 19 July 2011, Pages 140–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpr011 Published: 08 December 2011
Secular States, Muslim Law and Islamic Religious Culture
This article sets out the differing approaches of three West African states (Niger, Senegal, and Nigeria) towards reconciling the multiple legal systems (Islamic, western, military) they have inherited as ostensibly secular states in regions with prominent Muslim populations. While Senegal has adopted a Family Code that appears to modify and regulate some of the perceived injustices of Islamic law in family life, a number of states within Nigeria…
Kindred Concerns
Kindred Concerns: The Vernacular and Contemporary Media in Africa Barbara M. Cooper (bio) The literature on early modern Europe has long provided historians of modern Africa with a fertile space for thinking about worlds not wholly encompassed by enlightenment thinking, industrialization, the nation-state, and so on. Friendly and suggestive conversations have persisted for decades across these seemingly incongruent fields because they regularly p…
A'n't I a Lady
Journal Article A'n't I a Lady?: Race Women, Michelle Obama, and the Ever-Expanding Democratic Imagination Get access Brittney Cooper Brittney Cooper University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 39–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/35.4.39 Published: 01 December 2010
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
Concubines and Power
Reviewed by: Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace Barbara M. Cooper Nast, Heidi J. 2005. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 244 pp. $68.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Geographer Heidi Nast has written a refreshing study of the history of the Kano Palace—a study that challenges much received wisdom about the character of power in the Hau…
Anatomy of a Riot
ResumeCet article analyse le soulevement du 8 novembre 2000 a Maradi, au Niger qui a eu lieu en signe de protestation contre le Festival international de la mode africaine. La violence refletait plusieurs processus qui se recoupaient et rivalisaient entre eux: la montee concomitante du mouvement de democratisation et une sphere publique plus large; l’intensification d’un activisme monotheiste religieux; la perception du controle exerce par les do…
The Strength in the Song
T wo hackneyed phrases in English capture a certain impatient and impersonal sensibility regarding capital in the West: Time is money, and talk is cheap. These phrases make little or no sense in Hausa speaking Niger, so far as I can tell, in which the classic adage regarding capital is magana jari ce —speech is wealth. While this expression is commonly invoked in celebration of Hausa literary arts (indeed a well-known publication promoting litera…
Eaters of the Dry Season
The Changing World of Cin Rani The Walked-Across Land Land-Use Change Along the Environmental Margin From Caravan to Bush-Taxi A Population in Motion Migrants Livelihoods Rural Community Perspectives Walking into the Next Century
Marriage in Maradi
Barbara M. Cooper, Marriage in Maradi: gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-89. Social History of Africa series. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 288 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 677 2, £15.95, ISBN 0 5255 627 6 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
One Woman's Jihad
Nana Asma'u and the scholarly Islamic tradition Qadiriyya Sufism - the Qur'an and the Sunna the Caliphate community the poetric tradition Sokoto as Medina - imitating the life of the prophet and re-enacting history Caliphate women's participation in the community appendix - poems by Nana Asma'u
Marriage in Maradi
Women in Muslim Societies
Study after study of women in the Muslim world has focused primarily on Middle Eastern societies, usually emphasizing the sexual ideology of a reified Islam. This book rounds out that view, exploring the status, roles, and contributions of Muslim women not only in the Middle East, but also in Africa and Asia, including post-Soviet Central Asia.
Hausaland Divided
Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective
Gender, Movement, and History
Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of the familiar public-private binary, our difficulty gaining purchase upon local spatial practices through feminist abstractions insisting upon the importance of global 'location', and our growing realization that women are often implicated in the very gender ideologies that constrain them. In this paper, focusing upon historical changes in Muslim women's acce…
Women's Worth and Wedding Gift Exchange in Maradi, Niger, 1907–89
Wedding gift exchange from the turn of the century to the present has served as a medium through which women in the Maradi valley of Niger could assert their worth, create social ties and respond to a shifting political economy. Rather than exploring the implications of ‘bridewealth’ and ‘dowry’ in isolation, this paper sees wedding prestations as an ongoing and evolving dialogue in which women's roles and worth are contested, the nature of wealt…
Reflections on Slavery, Seclusion and Female Labor in the Maradi Region of Niger in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This essay argues that female participation in agriculture and limited seclusion in Maradi (Niger) today do not stem from the absence of agricultural slavery in the pre-colonial period but rather result from the resistance of the Katsinawa élite to the Islamic reforms of the Sokoto Caliphate and from the absence of rimji (plantation) slavery in the region. The abolition of slavery did not mark a watershed in the rise of seclusion, as M. G. Smith …
Cloth, Commodity Production, and Social Capital
Marriage in Maradi
The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger
Traveling Companions
This article, part of a historical study of childbirth in the Sahel, draws upon oral interviews, ethnographic materials, and studies of midwifery to explore placenta burial in Niger. In the region the placenta is often referred to as the "traveling companion" that ushers the new human from one world to the next. Only through proper respect toward the placenta by means of careful burial can a woman's future fertility be protected. The importance o…
A'n't I a Lady
Journal Article A'n't I a Lady?: Race Women, Michelle Obama, and the Ever-Expanding Democratic Imagination Get access Brittney Cooper Brittney Cooper University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 39–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/35.4.39 Published: 01 December 2010
Anatomy of a Riot
ResumeCet article analyse le soulevement du 8 novembre 2000 a Maradi, au Niger qui a eu lieu en signe de protestation contre le Festival international de la mode africaine. La violence refletait plusieurs processus qui se recoupaient et rivalisaient entre eux: la montee concomitante du mouvement de democratisation et une sphere publique plus large; l’intensification d’un activisme monotheiste religieux; la perception du controle exerce par les do…
De quoi la crise démographique au Sahel est-elle le nom
Les femmes nigériennes ont le taux de fécondité le plus élevé d'Afrique subsaharienne, une statistique qui contribue à la pauvreté et aux perturbations politiques dans la région. Les données nationales nous renseignent cependant bien peu sur les expériences individuelles de la fécondité. Ce texte approche les récentes études démographiques à partir d'un travail anthropologique et historique plus large sur le Sahel. Il s'agit de montrer qu'au Nige…
Marriage in Maradi
Barbara M. Cooper, Marriage in Maradi: gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-89. Social History of Africa series. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 288 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 677 2, £15.95, ISBN 0 5255 627 6 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Genres et générations en difficulté dans le Sahel contemporain
Nombre de décideurs politiques qui s'intéressent au Sahel ont tendance à se concentrer sur la croissance démographique et les « risques sécuritaires » de cette région. En portant notre attention sur une échelle plus intime, il devient possible d'éclairer les choix que font les individus et les familles à la lumière des contraintes qui pèsent sur leurs déplacements, sur leur accès à la production et sur les perspectives qu'ils ont de pouvoir se ma…
Kindred Concerns
Kindred Concerns: The Vernacular and Contemporary Media in Africa Barbara M. Cooper (bio) The literature on early modern Europe has long provided historians of modern Africa with a fertile space for thinking about worlds not wholly encompassed by enlightenment thinking, industrialization, the nation-state, and so on. Friendly and suggestive conversations have persisted for decades across these seemingly incongruent fields because they regularly p…
Le mouvement associatif des jeunes en Afrique noire francophone au XXe siecle
Cloth, Commodity Production, and Social Capital
The Alhazai of Maradi
Introduction: The City and Its Environment Maradi's Political and Economic Roles in the 19th Century. Part 1 Administrative Seat and Centre of Trade: Establishment of Colonial Power and Trade Growth of the Peanut Trade Under Colonialism Structural Reforms Following Independence. Part 2 A Regional Metropole: Effects of Drought on Commerce in Agricultural and Pastoral Products Development of Large-Scale Commerce Other Urban Economic Activities. Par…
Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
Reflections on Slavery, Seclusion and Female Labor in the Maradi Region of Niger in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This essay argues that female participation in agriculture and limited seclusion in Maradi (Niger) today do not stem from the absence of agricultural slavery in the pre-colonial period but rather result from the resistance of the Katsinawa élite to the Islamic reforms of the Sokoto Caliphate and from the absence of rimji (plantation) slavery in the region. The abolition of slavery did not mark a watershed in the rise of seclusion, as M. G. Smith …
Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective
Women's Worth and Wedding Gift Exchange in Maradi, Niger, 1907–89
Wedding gift exchange from the turn of the century to the present has served as a medium through which women in the Maradi valley of Niger could assert their worth, create social ties and respond to a shifting political economy. Rather than exploring the implications of ‘bridewealth’ and ‘dowry’ in isolation, this paper sees wedding prestations as an ongoing and evolving dialogue in which women's roles and worth are contested, the nature of wealt…
Hausaland Divided
Les Temps du Pouvoir
The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger
Nuptiality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Les Africaines. Histoires des femmes d'Afrique noire du XIXe au XXe siecle
Gender, Movement, and History
Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of the familiar public-private binary, our difficulty gaining purchase upon local spatial practices through feminist abstractions insisting upon the importance of global 'location', and our growing realization that women are often implicated in the very gender ideologies that constrain them. In this paper, focusing upon historical changes in Muslim women's acce…
Women in Muslim Societies
Study after study of women in the Muslim world has focused primarily on Middle Eastern societies, usually emphasizing the sexual ideology of a reified Islam. This book rounds out that view, exploring the status, roles, and contributions of Muslim women not only in the Middle East, but also in Africa and Asia, including post-Soviet Central Asia.
Marriage in Maradi
Marriage in Maradi
One Woman's Jihad
Nana Asma'u and the scholarly Islamic tradition Qadiriyya Sufism - the Qur'an and the Sunna the Caliphate community the poetric tradition Sokoto as Medina - imitating the life of the prophet and re-enacting history Caliphate women's participation in the community appendix - poems by Nana Asma'u
The Strength in the Song
T wo hackneyed phrases in English capture a certain impatient and impersonal sensibility regarding capital in the West: Time is money, and talk is cheap. These phrases make little or no sense in Hausa speaking Niger, so far as I can tell, in which the classic adage regarding capital is magana jari ce —speech is wealth. While this expression is commonly invoked in celebration of Hausa literary arts (indeed a well-known publication promoting litera…
Eaters of the Dry Season
The Changing World of Cin Rani The Walked-Across Land Land-Use Change Along the Environmental Margin From Caravan to Bush-Taxi A Population in Motion Migrants Livelihoods Rural Community Perspectives Walking into the Next Century
Marriage in Maradi
Barbara M. Cooper, Marriage in Maradi: gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-89. Social History of Africa series. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 288 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 677 2, £15.95, ISBN 0 5255 627 6 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Anatomy of a Riot
ResumeCet article analyse le soulevement du 8 novembre 2000 a Maradi, au Niger qui a eu lieu en signe de protestation contre le Festival international de la mode africaine. La violence refletait plusieurs processus qui se recoupaient et rivalisaient entre eux: la montee concomitante du mouvement de democratisation et une sphere publique plus large; l’intensification d’un activisme monotheiste religieux; la perception du controle exerce par les do…
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
Concubines and Power
Reviewed by: Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace Barbara M. Cooper Nast, Heidi J. 2005. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 244 pp. $68.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Geographer Heidi Nast has written a refreshing study of the history of the Kano Palace—a study that challenges much received wisdom about the character of power in the Hau…
Secular States, Muslim Law and Islamic Religious Culture
This article sets out the differing approaches of three West African states (Niger, Senegal, and Nigeria) towards reconciling the multiple legal systems (Islamic, western, military) they have inherited as ostensibly secular states in regions with prominent Muslim populations. While Senegal has adopted a Family Code that appears to modify and regulate some of the perceived injustices of Islamic law in family life, a number of states within Nigeria…
Kindred Concerns
Kindred Concerns: The Vernacular and Contemporary Media in Africa Barbara M. Cooper (bio) The literature on early modern Europe has long provided historians of modern Africa with a fertile space for thinking about worlds not wholly encompassed by enlightenment thinking, industrialization, the nation-state, and so on. Friendly and suggestive conversations have persisted for decades across these seemingly incongruent fields because they regularly p…
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