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Drinking the Word    of God Introduction The Towns of Zinder and Bondoukou • Zinder • Bondoukou The Production of Writing Water Education and Scholarship in Zinder and Bondoukou • Education • Scholarship Health, Well-Being and the Talismanic Tradition • Erasure: Writing Water • Talismans • Special Prayers Resources for Further Study Acknowledgements Comments

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Bibliography on Niger

General Works on Niger
	Baier, Stephen 1981 An Economic History of Central Niger. London: Oxford Univeristy Press.   Charlick, Robert B. 1991 Niger: Personal Rule and Survival in the Sahel. Boulder: Westview Press.   Cooper, Barbara M. 1997 Marriage in Maradi. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.   Fugelstad, Finn 1983 A History of Niger 1850-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Miles, William 1994 Hausaland Divided. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Religion in Niger
	Cooper, Barbara M. 1998 Gender and Religion in Hausaland. In Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity Within Unity, edited by Herbert L. Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi, 21-37. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.   Echard, Nicole 1991 Gender Relationships and Religion: Women in the Hausa Bori of Ader, Niger. In Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century, edited by Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack, 207-220. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.   Glew, Robert S. 1998 Islamic Culture and Muslim Identity in Zinder, Niger: A Historical Perspective. Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara 12:129-146.   Masquelier, Adeline 2001 Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Durham: Duke University Press.   Rasmussen, Susan J. 1995 Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Stoller, Paul 1989 Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.   Stoller, Paul and Cheryl Olkes 1987 In Sorcery's Shadow. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Art, Literature, and Music in Niger
	Alidou, Ousseina 2002 Gender, Narrative Space, and Modern Hausa Literature. Research in African Literatures 33(2): 137-153.   Beckwith, Carol and Marion van Offelen 1993 Nomads of Niger. New York : Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams   Beik, Janet 1991 Women's Roles in the Contemporary Hausa Theatre of Niger. In Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century. Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack, eds. Pp. 232-243. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.   Bovin, Mette 2001 Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty : Wodaabe Dances and Visual Arts in Niger.Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet   Etienne-Nugue, Jocelyne and Mahamane Saley 1987 Artisanats traditionnels, Niger. Dakar : Institut culturel africain.   Furniss, Graham 1996 Poetry, Prose, and Popular Culture in Hausa. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.   Glew, Robert 1993 Hausa Folktales from Niger. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.   Sidikou, Aissata 2001 Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds: The Verbal Art of Women From Niger,Mali and Senegal. Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc.

Government, Politics, and Law
	Bergstrom, Kari 2002 Legacies of Colonialism and Islam for Hausa Women: An Historical Analysis 1804 to 1960. Women and International Development, Michigan State University Working Paper #276.   Djibo, Hadiza 2001 La participation des femmes africaines à la vie politique: Les exemples du Sénégal et du Niger. Paris: L'Harmattan.   Dunbar, Roberta Ann 1991 Islamic Values, the State, and "the Development of Women": The Case of Niger. In Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century. Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack, eds. Pp. 69-89. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.   Gado, Boureima Alpha 2002 Arbitration and Resolving Tenure Conflict in Boboye, Niger. In The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa. Camilla Toulmin, Philippe Lavigne Delville, and Samba Traoré, eds. London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).   Ibrahim, Jibrin 1994 Political Exclusion, Democratization and Dynamics of Ethnicity in Niger. Africa Today, 3rd Quarter 1994: 15-39.   Lund, Christian 1998 Law, Power, and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code. Hamburg: Lit Verlag.   Triaud, Jean-Louis 1981 Islam et l'Etat en République du Niger. Le Mois en Afrique 193:9-26.   1982 Islam et l'Etat en République du Niger. Le Mois en Afrique 194: 35-48.

Development and Environmental Issues
	Raynault, CI, J. Koechlin, P. Brasset, Ch. Cheung, and M. Stigliano 1988 Le développement rural de la région au village: Analyser et comprendre la diversité. Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux II.   Raynault, Claude with Emmanuel Grégoire, Pierre Janin, Jean Koechlin, et Philippe Lavigne Delville. 1997 Societies and Nature in the Sahel. London: Routledge.   Moller, Morten Ronnenberg 1998 The Changing Roles of Rural Non-agricultural Activities in the Livelihoods of Nigerien Peasants. Copenhagen, Denmark: Centre for Development Research   Mortimore, Michael, Mary Tiffen, Yamba Boubacar, and John Nelson 2001 Synthèse sur les évolutions à long terme dans le département de Maradi, Niger, 1960-2000. Dryland Research Working Paper 39f.   Tiffen, Mary 2001 Profile of Demographic Change in the Kano-Maradi Region, 1960-2000. Dryland Research Working Paper 24.   Yamba, Boubacar. 2000 Évolution des régimes de propriété et d'utilisation des resources naturelles dans la région de Maradi. Dryland Research Working Paper 29.

International Relations, Commerce, and Migration
	Akinteriwa, Bola A. 1994 The Experience of Niger: Adjusting What Structure? In Structural Adjustment in West Africa, edited by Adebayo O. Olukoshi, R. Omotayo Olaniyan, and Femi Aribisala, 143-174. Lagos: Punmark Nigeria Limited.   De Conick, John with Kiara Liman Tinguiri 1992 Niger. In Structural Adjustment and the African Farmer. Alex Duncan and John Howell, eds. Pp. 158-198. London: Overseas Development Institute.   Diarra, Fatoumata Agnes 1974 Les relations entre les hommes et les femmes et les migratons des Zarma. In Modern Migrations in West Africa, edited by Samir Amin. Pp. 226-238. London: Oxford University Press.   Doka, Marthe Diarra. 2000 Évolutions à long-terme de l'organisation sociale et économique dans la region de Maradi. Dryland Research Working Paper 26.   Dorosh, Paul 1994 Economic Fallout from a Uranium Boom: Structural Adjustment in Niger. In Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies.   Grégoire, Emmanuel 1992 The Alhazai of Maradi: Traditional Hausa Merchants in a Changing Sahelian City, trans. Benjamin Hardy. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.   Rain, David 1999 Eaters of the Dry Season: Circular Labor Migration in the West African Sahel. Boulder: Westview Press.   Stoller, Paul 2002 Money Has No Smell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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