The Tuareg Society Within a Globalized World: Saharan Life in Transition
The Tuareg are an ancient nomadic people who follow Islam and have inhabited the Sahara 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. A tribe able to move freely across national borders, the Tuareg face the risk of marginalization by national and international politics, and are left without nationality or citizenship. At the same time…
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Weitere Autoren: Fischer, Anja (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84885-370-6
- EAN: 9781848853706
- Produktnummer: 7311092
- Verlag: I B Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.4 cm 527 g
- Gewicht: 527
Über den Autor
Anja Fischer was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. She has been conducting annual fieldwork among nomads in Algeria since 2002. Her research focuses on the economic and linguistic anthropology of nomads in the Sahara. Ines Kohl is senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main interests are concentrated on the anthropology of borderlands and questions of migration, transnationality and identity among the Kel Tamasheq between Niger, Algeria and Libya.
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