Download or read book Embodying Honor, Managing Misfortune written by Amal Hassan Fadlalla and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography goes beyond anthropology's symbolic analysis of fertility rituals to also ground the Hadendowa's meanings of honor and fertility practices in their perceptions of foreignness and its danger to procreation, which reflect their marginal location at the intersection of both national and global powers.