Books by Adeline Masquelier

How religious issues shape gender and domestic life in West Africa

By considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization.

An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam, colonialism, and the state