Nigeria: Another Geography - Risks To Health As Perceived In A Deep-Rural Environment In Hausaland

Nigeria: Another Geography - Risks To Health As Perceived In A Deep-Rural Environment In Hausaland Murray Lasta, 2011   The paper describes, for the Hausa farmers of Gidan Jatau in northern Nigeria, the distinct ways in which they see and understand (a) their close and distant environment and (b) their bodies’ anatomy and physiology. These ways result in ‘another geography’ – of both space and being – which, however, may no longer now have the resonance it had in the early 1970s when the...

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