Religious expression in Senegalese weavers' work

Using ethnographic interviews with weavers in Thiès, Senegal, this article argues that artists make processes of weaving practices of their faith. Weavers discursively associate their work with their personal faith and with socially circulated tenets of Sufism and indigenous systems of belief. I foc...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cochrane, Laura L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2009]
In: Material religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-223
Further subjects:B weaving
B Senegal
B West Africa
B Religion
B Sufism
B Species
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)