CONVERSION TO ISLAM: MILITARY RECRUITMENT AND GENERATIONAL CONFLICT IN A SEREER-SAFÈN VILLAGE (BANDIA), 1920–38

Autor:	James Searing
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	History education.field_of_study Military recruitment media_common.quotation_subject Population Islam Wolof Genealogy language.human_language Religious conversion Islamization Kinship language Ethnology Inheritance education media_common
Zdroj:	The Journal of African History. 44:73-94
ISSN:	1469-5138 0021-8537
DOI:	10.1017/s0021853702008174
Popis:	The Sereer-Safèn are a minority population in a predominantly Wolof and Muslim region. During the colonial period the Safèn were ruled by Wolof chiefs, who treated them as a conquered population. Until the First World War, Safèn resistance was based on preserving a separate religious and ethnic identity, symbolized by the village shrine and matrilineal descent. Conversion to Islam had its roots in the crisis created by military recruitment. When the Safèn were forced to give soldiers to the French, ‘maternal uncles’ used their authority over their ‘nephews’ to recruit soldiers. Today this act is remembered as a ‘betrayal’ that called into question the legitimacy of the matrilineal system of labor and inheritance. Conversion to Islam has been studied by focusing on long-term Islamization rather than the moment of conversion. Oral testimony from converts emphasizes changes in behavior, funeral rites, inheritance and patterns of labor and power in the village community.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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