This book is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics, various other dimensions of Hausa life, minority group relationships, and creolization.

The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. It is an ethnographic reflection of intense field work in Yauri and the surrounding areas that border it, as well as many trips to archives, libraries, and interview sites. It is also the result of discussions with colleagues, especially Salamone's mentor, Charles Frantz, who directed Salamone to Nigeria and who has aided the author's many years of study of the Hausa over time. Frantz's work on ethnicity, as well as ethics in anthropology, has served to provide a standard for Salamone's own endeavors. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics and various other dimensions of Hausa life, as well as minority group relationships and creolization.

Chapter 1 List of Tables
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction - Wrestling with Identity: From Newbie to Elder
Chapter 4 Chapter One - Hausa States
Chapter 5 Chapter Two - Hausa Shaman
Chapter 6 Chapter Three - Up Close and Personal in the Field
Chapter 7 Chapter Four - Colonialism and the Creation of Ethnic Identity
Chapter 8 Chapter Five - Indirect Rule and the Reinterpretation of Tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri
Chapter 9 Chapter Six - Indirect Rule Continued
Chapter 10 Chapter Seven - Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate
Chapter 11 Chapter Eight - Competitive Converstion and Its Implicatiosn for Modernized Nigeria
Chapter 12 Chapter Nine - Religion as Play: Bori, a Friendly "Witchdoctor"
Chapter 13 Chapter Ten - Hausa Islamic Practices
Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven - Hausa Culture and Personality
Chapter 15 Chapter Twelve - Erikson in Nigeria: Exploring the Universality of the Theory of Psychosocial Development
Chapter 16 Chapter Thirteen - Muslim African Women and Kinship
Chapter 17 Chapter Fourteen - Hausa Wrestling and Ethnic Boundaries
Chapter 18 Chapter Fifteen - The Waziri and the Thief: Hausa Islamic Law in a Yoruba City, A Case Study from Ibadan, Nigeria
Chapter 19 Chapter Sixteen - Student Teachers and Change
Chapter 20 Chapter Seventeen - Children's Games in Nigeria Redux: A Consideration of the "Uses" of Play
Chapter 21 Chapter Eighteen - Dukawa Views on Death
Chapter 22 Bibliography