Baba of Karo

First edition (publ. Faber)

Baba of Karo is a 1954 book[1] by the anthropologist Mary F. Smith. The book is an anthropological record of the Hausa people, partly compiled from an oral account given by Baba (1877-1951), the daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher, and translated by Smith.[2]

Smith's husband, the anthropologist M. G. Smith, contributed an explanation of the Hausa's cultural context.[1]

The 1981 reissue of Baba of Karo contains a foreword by Hilda Kuper.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Judith Okel & Helen Callaway (eds), Anthropology and Autobiography, Routledge, 1992, pp. 39-40.
  2. 1 2 Mary F. Smith, Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa, Yale University Press, 1981, 300 pp.


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