Nomads and nation building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi / Konstantina Isidoros.
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Isidoros, Konstantina, 1976- (författare)
- ISBN 9781788311403
- Publicerad: London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2018
- Copyright: ©2018
- Engelska xv, 288 pages
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Serie: International library of African studies ; 62
Sammanfattning
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- "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. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of this unique desert society's life in one of Earth's most extreme ecosystems. Her extensive anthropological research, conducted over nine years, illuminates an Arab-Berber Muslim society in which men wear full face veils and are matrifocused toward women, who are the property-holders of tent households forming powerful matrilocal coalitions. Isidoros offers new analytical insights on gender relations, strategic tribe-to-state symbiosis and the tactical formation of 'tent-cities'. 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."
Ämnesord
- Nomader (sao)
- Statsbildning (sao)
- Flyktingar (sao)
- Afrikanska etniska grupper -- historia (sao)
- Afrikanska etniska grupper -- sociala aspekter (sao)
- Refugees (LCSH)
- Nation-building (LCSH)
- Nomads (LCSH)
- Västsahara (sao)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Sahrawier
Klassifikation
- 305.8927648 (DDC)
- Mpaa (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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