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This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization¿specifically, the decline of the textile industry in Kaduna, Nigeriäand its consequences for deceased workers¿ families.

The social dynamics of global polio eradication

Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemployment, extravagance, and corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early...

Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemployment, extravagance, and corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early...

This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Fertility transition theory and modernisation theory from which it derives have not explained why fertility remains high, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the presence of some conditions associated with its decline in Western societies, nor...

In 2008, Northern Nigeria had the greatest number of confirmed cases ofpolio in the world and was the source of outbreaks in several West Africancountries. Elisha P. Renne explores the politics and social dynamics of the NorthernNigerian response to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which has been metwith extreme skepticism, subversion, and the refusal of some parents to immunizetheir children. Renne explains this resistance by situatin...

Elisha P. Renne is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria (IUP, 2010).

Renne (public and international affairs, Princeton U.) describes the role of handwoven cloth as a symbol of social relations and as a way to mark critical junctures in an individual's life among the B?n? Yor?bb people of central Nigeria. She examines the use and production of cloth in B?n? society f