Bounded and multiple identities
article 2007 Kristín Loftsdóttir

FulaniAfrica > Western Africa
In this discussion of the origins and history of names used by themselves and others to identify the Fulani, the author reviews ethnographies, myths and histories to argue that the different names are related to changing identities....

The bush is sweet
Book 2008 Kristín Loftsdóttir

FulaniAfrica > Western Africa
In this personal and reflexive ethnography of WoDaaBe life—both in the bush and in the city of Niamey—the author conveys the rigors of pastoral life, relationships among lineages and households and to animals, and aspects of gender relations. Migrant...