Tuareg Society within a Globalized World : Saharan Life in Transition.
Title:
Tuareg Society within a Globalized World : Saharan Life in Transition.
Author:
Kohl, Ines.
ISBN:
9780857719249
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
Library of Modern Middle East Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Terminology and Transcription -- 1. Tuareg Moving Global: An Introduction -- Ines Kohl and Anja Fischer -- PART I: WHERE IS SAHARAN ANTHROPOLOGY GOING? -- 2. Research and Nomands in the Age of Globalization -- Anja Fischer -- 3. Tuareg Networks: An Integrated Approach to Mobility and Stasis -- Alessandra Giuffrida -- 4. Tuareg City Blues: Cultural Capital in a Global Cosmopole -- Baz Lecocq -- PART II: FROM PAST TO PRESENT: ONGOING DISCOURSES -- 5. Foreign Cloth and Kel Ewey Identity -- Gerd Spittler -- 6. Genesis and Change in the Socio-political Structure of the Tuareg -- Dida Badi -- 7. Tuareg Trajectories of Slavery: Preliminary Reflections on a Changing Field -- Benedetta Rossi -- PART III: DIVERSIFIED NORMS AND VALUES -- 8. The Price of Marriage: Shifting Boundaries, Compromised Agency and the Effects of Globalization on Iklan Marriages -- Annemarie Bouman -- 9. Debating Beauties: Contested and Changed Female Bodily Aesthetics of Fatness among the Tuareg -- Susan Rasmussen] -- 10. Libya, the 'Europe of Ishumar': Between Losing and Reinventing Tradition -- Ines Kohl -- 11. The Ishumar Guitar: Emergence, Circulation and Evolution from Diasporic Performances to the World Scene -- Nadia Belalimat -- 12.Between the Worlds: Tuareg as Entrepreneurs in Tourism -- PART IV: SAHARA: GLOBAL PLAYGROUND -- 13. Ambiguous Meanings of Ikufar and their Rome in Development Projects -- Sarah Lunacek -- 14. Resisting Imperialism: Tuareg Threaten US, Chinese and Other Foreign Interests -- Jeremy Keenan -- Glossary -- Notes on the Contributors -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The Tuareg (Kel Tamasheq) are an ancient nomadic people who have inhabited the Sahara, one of the most extreme environments in the world, for millennia. In what ways have the lives of the Tuareg changed, and what roles do they have, in a modern and increasingly globalized world? Here, leading scholars explore the many facets of contemporary Tuareg existence: from transnational identity to international politics, from economy to social structure, from music to beauty, from mobility to slavery._x000D_ _x000D_ This book provides a comprehensive portrait of Saharan life in transition, presenting an important new theoretical approach to the anthropology and history of the region. Dealing with issues of mobility, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements, this is essential reading for students and scholars of the history, culture and society of the Tuareg, of nomadic peoples, and of North Africa more widely. This book is the first comprehensive study of the Tuareg today, exploring the ways in which the Tuareg themselves are moving global.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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