Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara
«Offers a fresh perspective on Sahwari social organisation in the Algeria-based refugee camps bordering in the Western Sahara ... It also provides rich ethnographic descriptions which enable a tactile entry point into Sahrawi life in the camps. This is the book's real strength and demonstrates the author's fluency in critical refugee studies and anthropological literature ... A highly engaging book which gives a truly interdisciplinary perspective, built upon a skilfully written ethnography and offering a fresh analysis from 'inside the tent'.»
Nomadic Peoples
Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. Les mer
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The book sheds light on the indigenous principles of social organisation - the centrality of women, male veiling and milk-kinship - bringing positive feminist perspectives on how the Sahrawi have innovatively reconfigured their tribal nomadic pastoral society into globalising citizen-nomads constructing their nascent nation-state. This is essential reading for those interested in anthropology, politics, war and nationalism, gender relations, postcolonialism, international development, humanitarian regimes, refugee studies and the experience of nomadic communities.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781838604721
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«Offers a fresh perspective on Sahwari social organisation in the Algeria-based refugee camps bordering in the Western Sahara ... It also provides rich ethnographic descriptions which enable a tactile entry point into Sahrawi life in the camps. This is the book's real strength and demonstrates the author's fluency in critical refugee studies and anthropological literature ... A highly engaging book which gives a truly interdisciplinary perspective, built upon a skilfully written ethnography and offering a fresh analysis from 'inside the tent'.»
Nomadic Peoples