“头巾是我的身份”:超越面纱的政治:自20世纪80年代以来阿克拉(加纳)市中心穆斯林地区对面纱的占用

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Journal of Africana Religions Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.5325/jafrireli.10.1.0020

C. Prempeh

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摘要：这项民族志研究的目的是评估加纳阿克拉内城穆斯林地区Maamobi围绕面纱（头巾）和头发的文化重新解释的当代争论。本文没有再现东方主义者认为面纱对伊斯兰妇女的压迫，而是分析了面纱的意义及其在伊斯兰信仰中的挪用。我坚持认为，在宗教多元化和阿克拉城市道德迅速下降的普遍看法中，女性作为宗教价值观守门人的“传统”角色在面纱辩论中被重新塑造。这项研究基于我作为Maamobi居民30多年的职位，以及我在2018年和2019年进行的12个月的民族志实地调查，以讨论从20世纪80年代到当代面纱的历史和社会使用。

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“Hijab Is My Identity”: Beyond the Politics of the Veil: The Appropriations of the Veil in an Inner-City Muslim Area of Accra (Ghana) since the 1980s

Abstract:The object of this ethnographic study is to assess the contemporary debates surrounding the veil (hijab) and the cultural reinterpretation of the hair in Maamobi, an inner-city Muslim area of Accra, Ghana. Instead of reproducing the Orientalists’ view of the veil as oppressive to women in Islam, the paper analyses the significance of the veil and its appropriation within the Islamic faith in recent times. I maintain that in the midst of religious plurality and the widespread perception of a fast-declining morality in urban Accra, the “traditional” role of women as gatekeepers of religious values has been refashioned in the veil debate. This study is based on my position as a resident of Maamobi for more than three decades as well as twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in 2018 and 2019 to discuss the history and social use of the veil from the 1980s to contemporary times.

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Africana Religions publishes critical scholarship on Africana religions, including the religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines, the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies in understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions.