KATSINA

kätsēˈnə, kätˈsĭnə, city (1991 est. pop. 182,000), N Nigeria, near the Niger frontier. The city, surrounded by a wall 13 mi (21 km) long, is the trade center for an agricultural region where guinea corn and millet are grown for home consumption, and peanuts, cotton, and hides are produced commercially. The city has a steel-rolling and vegetable oil mills. Leather handicrafts are made in Katsina. In the 17th and 18th cent. it was the largest of the seven Hausa city-states and the cultural and commercial center of Hausaland. In 1807, Katsina was conquered by the Fulani and lost to Kano its preeminent position among Hausa cities. The city is the site of Katsina Training College and Gobaru Tower mosque.

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books on: Katsina  - 242 results

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1.
Origin Myth of Acoma, and Other Records
Book by Matthew W. Stirling; 1942
Subjects: Acoma (N.M.), Acoma Indians--Religion And Mythology
...represent Tsitsanits, the leader of the katsina. They decided also to have every member...women and children, to guard against the katsina coming at the people, and they were all...what they were to do. Everyone knew the katsina were to regard them i. e., members...
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Conceptualizing/Re-Conceptualizing Africa: The Construction of African Historical Identity
Book by Maghan Keita; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Africa--Historiography, Africa--History--Philosophy
...affairs, but subordinate to the Sarkin Katsina who lived in the largest and wealthiest of the birane - Birnin Katsina. This system was transformed under Koraus...of the seventeenth century the Sarkin Katsina, through the sarakunan Katsina, exercised...
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When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Book by Ramón A. Gutiérrez; Stanford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Marriage--New Mexico--History, Pueblo Indians--Sexual Behavior, Pueblo Indians--Social Conditions
...faltered. These themes surface in reference to the katsina, the beneficent rain spirits that represented...increasing age one approached the godliness of katsina. The myth explains that the katsina first fought with the people, abandoned them...
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The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico
Book by Leslie A. White; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962
Subjects: Sia Indians
...assist each other in their initiation ceremonies. KATSINA-GOMAIYAWIC The Katsina-Gomaiyawic grouping is described by informants...over a membership list, obtained as that of the Katsina society, name by name, that I discovered that...
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The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City
Book by Annabeth Headrick; University of Texas Press, 2007
Subjects: Aztecs--Mexico--San Juan Teotihuacaan--Antiquities, Aztecs--Mexico--San Juan Teotihuacaan--Politics And Government, Aztecs--Mexico--San Juan Teotihuacaan--Rites And Ceremonies, Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--San Juan Teotihuacaan, San Juan Teotihuacaan (Mexico)--Antiquities, Social Archaeology--Mexico--San Juan Teotihuacaan, Teotihuacaan Site (San Juan Teotihuacaan, Mexico)
...characteristics of military orders come from the katsina societies among the Pueblos of the United States Southwest. While modern katsina societies are primarily involved in...populations. The period when the katsina societies first emerged coincided...
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journal articles on: Katsina  - 78 results

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The Spirits Move Him-Dolls-Katsina Religions: A Unifying Force for Hopi Villagers
Journal article; International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Vol. 18, 2002
Subjects: Dolls--Religious aspects, Hopis--Religious aspects
The spirits move him--dolls--katsina religions: a unifying force for Hopi...is now completely devoted to: carving katsina dolls. For the Winslow native, 43...Quotskuyva stressed that he uses the "katsina" spelling, rather than "kachina...
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Mail-Order "Katsinam" and the Issue of Authenticity
Journal article by Zena Pearlstone; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Art, Culture--Economic aspects, Hopis--Economic aspects, Native Americans, Native North Americans, Ritual--Economic aspects, Rituals--Economic aspects, Wood carving--Economic aspects, Wood-carving--Economic aspects
...Control Megazords, imitation Hopi tithu (katsina plural katsinam dolls or figurines, singular...Hopiness. The time in Hopi history when katsina carvings had only one function, and their...replications themselves are replicated. As katsina representations move further from the...
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The Metaphorical Dimensions of Hopi Ethics
Journal article by Maria Glowacka, Emory Sekaquaptewa; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 51, 2009
Subjects: Arizona--Social aspects, Clans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Conduct of life--Management, Cultural identity--Management, Folk songs--Social aspects, Folk-songs--Social aspects, Hopis--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Human territoriality--Management
...evidence for this proposition from the katsina song texts that, according to Emory Sekaquaptewa...sickness, used in every ritual speech, in katsina songs, and in a customary speech given...properly" (Adams 1991:162). The katsina songs, delivered in public performance...
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Style, Meaning, and the Individual Artist in Western Pueblo Polychrome Ceramics after Chaco
Journal article by Richard B. Wright; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Ceramic sculpture--Discovery and exploration, Ceramic sculpture--Natural history, Pueblo Bonito (Ancient site)--Discovery and exploration, Pueblo Bonito (Ancient site)--Research
...is strongly suggestive of contemporary katsina rituals, where calls are made to the...the rites. One problem with asserting katsina symbolism in this context is that there is little evidence of katsina paraphernalia at Chaco. The organic...
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The Impact of Rural Political Economy on Gender Relations in Islamizing Hausaland, Nigeria
Journal article by Paul Clough; Africa, Vol. 79, 2009
Subjects: Anthropology--Research, Female-male relations--Economic aspects, Female-male relations--Religious aspects
...of Marmara. It is situated in Malumfashi District, in the economic region of southern Katsina (a part of Katsina Emirate). Marmara, and southern Katsina more generally, are part of that enormous area known popularly as northern Nigeria...
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magazine articles on: Katsina  - 52 results

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Tussle for Obasanjo's Seat: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Governor of Katsina State, Is Likely to Become the Next President of Nigeria after Winning the Ruling People's Democratic Party's Presidential Ticket on 16 December. Lindsay Barrett and Tom Mbakwe Report
Magazine article by Lindsay Barrett, Tom Mbakwe; New African, January 2007
Subjects: Nigeria--Political aspects, Political parties--Elections, Political parties--Nigeria, Political parties--Political activity, Presidential elections--Political aspects, Presidents--Elections, Presidents--Political aspects, Yar'Adua, Umaru Musa--Elections, Yar'Adua, Umaru Musa--Political activity
Tussle for Obasanjos Seat: Umaru Musa YarAdua, Governor of Katsina State, Is Likely to Become the Next President of Nigeria after Winning the Ruling Peoples Democratic Partys Presidential Ticket...
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Chief Justice under Fire!
Magazine article by Osasu Obayiuwana; New African, May 2011
Subjects: Judges--Ethical aspects, United Nations. International Court of Justice--Ethical aspects, United Nations. International Court of Justice--Officials and employees
...against Nigerias chief justice, Aloysius Katsina-Alu, have done severe damage to the...decision by Nigerias chief justice, Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to promote Justice Isa Salami...said. Salami alleged that Chief Justice Katsina-Alu asked him to compromise on a verdict...
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'Umaru, the Rumour Here Is That You Are Dead. Are You Dead?': Pini Jason Profiles Nigeria's New President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Magazine article by Pini Jason; New African, June 2007
Subjects: Nigeria--Elections, Political leadership--Evaluation, Yar'Adua, Alhaji Umaru Musa--Elections, Yar'Adua, Alhaji Umaru Musa--Evaluation, Yar'Adua, Alhaji Umaru Musa--Political activity
...Even as the governor of his home state, Katsina, the most that was known of him was that...dead?" Umaru Musa YarAdua was born in Katsina town in 1951 and attended Rafukka Primary School, Katsina, in 1958. He went to the Dutsinma Boarding...
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Chronicles in Cottonwood
Magazine article by Nora Burba Trulsson; Sunset, Vol. 206, January 2001
Subjects: Dolls, Hopi Tribe, Native Americans, Religious icons
...planting season to start properly. "Katsina dolls are books in wood," says Bruce...extended or bent. At the Heard Museum, katsina doll prices range from about $15 for...000. With this kind of popularity, katsina dolls have inevitably been exploited by...
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No Place like Home
Magazine article by Frank H. Goodyear Jr., Ofelia Zepeda; Southwest Art, Vol. 35, August 2005
Subjects: Art exhibits, Culture, Native North Americans
...with the present and firmly establish a limitless future." TINO YOUVELLA (HOPI) NIMAN KATSINA, c 1983, H20 1/2. The Niman Katsina is the last katsina to appear in the village before all the katsinam return to their mountain-top homes...
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newspaper articles on: Katsina  - 5 results

 
 
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Nigeria's Fresh Start
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 2, 2007
...President Yar Adua - a Muslim who served impeccably as governor of Katsina in the north - is unique in Nigeria because he transcends historic...or otherwise. Mr. YarAduas administration as governor of Katsina was free from corruption or allegations of illegalities. He...
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Culture: The Rise and Fall of Tyne's Shipyards
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 3, 2008
Subjects: Shipyards
...Hebburn area in 1936 by the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. There are the launches of the Katsina Palm at Swan Hunters yard in 1957, the British Venture at Hawthorn Leslie in 1961 and the MV Clark Maxwell in 1966, plus...
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Did London Turn Him to Terror? THE SYRINGE BOMBER; Two Tourist Trips, Three Years as a Student, Then off to Join Al Qaeda
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 28, 2009
...secondary screening or put on a no-fly list. Mr Mutallab flew yesterday from the family home in Funtua in Nigerias northern Katsina State to meet security agencies and discuss the activities of his son, the youngest of his 16 children. I have been receiving...
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Today in History
Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), August 19, 2011
...when a passenger train rams another that had stopped on the tracks after hitting a cow. 2002 - An Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria upholds a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal, who had been convicted of adultery by a village court...
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Activist Struggles with Injustice; Five Women Face Stoning
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 10, 2003
...denied involvement and the charges against him were dropped. Mrs. Lawals sentence was quashed by the sharia court of appeal of Katsina state on the grounds that sharia law was not in effect when she became pregnant. The court also took into consideration that...


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encyclopedia articles on: Katsina  - 3 results

 
 
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Katsina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KATSINA katse n , kat sin , city (1991 est. pop...mills. Leather handicrafts are made in Katsina. In the 17th and 18th cent. it was the...commercial center of Hausaland. In 1807, Katsina was conquered by the Fulani and lost to...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in N Nigeria Biram, Daura, Gobir, Kano, Katsina , Rano, and Zaria. Kano and Katsina competed for the lucrative trans-Saharan trade...YarAdua , the relatively unknown governor of Katsina state who was hand-picked by Obasanjo to be...
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Yar'Adua, Umaru Musa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Social Democratic party. As a member of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), he was elected governor of the state of Katsina in 1999 and reelected in 2003. During his tenure, the state saw economic gains as well as improvements in its medical system...


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