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Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal

Johnson, Michelle Cecilia

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Title
Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal
Author(s)
Johnson, Michelle Cecilia
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Gottlieb, Alma
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Anthropology, Cultural
Language
eng
Abstract
"The dynamic interplay between Mandinga personhood and religious identity is currently being played out through life course rituals, including the naming of infants, the ""writing-on-the-hand"" ceremony, initiation and circumcision, Islamic healing, pilgrimage, and funerals. It is also creating tensions between men and women, elders and youth, and between ""traditionalists""---those who practice a syncretic version of Islam---and those who uphold Islam as practiced in Saudi Arabia as a ""truer"" or ""purer"" path."
Graduation Semester
2002
Type of Resource
text
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