Muslim Families in Global Senegal Money Takes Care of Shame [Paperback]

Senegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in Global Senegal focuses on trade and the transmission of enduring social value though cloth, videos of life-cycle rituals, and religious offerings. Highlighting women's participation in these networks and the financial strategies they rely on, Beth Buggenhagen reveals the deep connections between economic profits and ritual and social authority. Buggenhagen discovers that these strategies are not responses to a dispersed community in crisis, but rather produce new roles, wealth, and worth for Senegalese women in all parts of the globe.

Acknowledgements
Names and Relationships

Prologue: Welcome to Khar Yalla
1. Global Senegal
2. Homes and Their Histories
3. The Promise of Paradise
4. A Tale of Two Sisters
5. A Lamb Slaughtered
6. Home Economics
7. Only Trouble

Epilogue

Glossary of Arabic and Wolof Terms
Notes
References
Index

Since the early 1990s, Beth Buggenhagan has been working with an extended Wolof Muslim family in urban Senegal, following the trajectories, travels and tribulations of various members. . . What makes the book a unique and innovative contribution . . . is the way it addresses the broad theme of continuity and change. . .May 2014A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar. . . . provides not only a wealth of detail but extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks, both in the domains of commerce but especially in ritual contexts.

Beth Buggenhagen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. She is editor (with Anne-Maria Makhulu and Stephen Jackson) of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities.

A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social lãÑ