ANTB66H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Counterpoint, Lag Baomer, Simeon Bar Yochai
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5 june (cid:465)(cid:463)(cid:464)(cid:471) / (cid:464)(cid:465):(cid:463)(cid:463) pm / room mw(cid:464)(cid:470)(cid:463) Last week, we focused on two pilgrimages by people who historically come from west africa. Rosander studied pilgrimage to porokhane in senegal. She examined the ways in which rural women in senegal and women traders in the spanish diaspora domesticate their devotional practices accordingly. Domestication of rituals as women development from a woman anthropologist. The women in senegal(cid:485) the focus is on the way they domesticate islam. We noted the importance of creating a sacred space in a local shrine that maintained ties to one(cid:495)s community and past. In the second essay, yamba considered the identity of hausa, originally from northern nigeria, who live permanently as pilgrims in the sudan. They look always toward a future, when they will reach mecca. They live their lives on a pilgrimage state of going to pilgrimage state. Cultural notions of time & space linked to pilgrimage. Mecca as ultimate pilgrimage center defines the future.
