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Smugglers and saints of the Sahara : regional connectivity in the twentieth century /
"Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading families, truckers, smugglers and scholars,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | African studies series ;
120. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; SMUGGLERS AND SAINTS OF THE SAHARA; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Photos; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE OTHER FACE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN; AL-KHALIL AND SAHARAN CONNECTIVITY; ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY; OUTLINE OF BOOK; 1: Founding Saints and Moneylenders: Regional Ecologies and Oasis Settlement; OASIS AGRICULTURE; MONEY AND DEBTS; PROPERTY RELATIONS AND REGIONAL PATTERNS OF INVESTMENT; WHEAT AND DATES: REGIONAL PATTERNS OF EXCHANGE; REGIONAL EXCHANGE AND TRANS-SAHARAN GOODS AND TRADERS; CONCLUSION.
- 2: Saints on Trucks: Algerian Traders and Settlement in the bilād al-sūdānAL-MAKKI AL-MARKĀNTI, OR HOW TO LIVE UP TO A LEGEND; HAMMŪ ZAFZAF AND THE KEL TOUAT; THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE ZIJLĀWI EMPIRE; AKACEM: CAMELS, TRUCKS, AND RESPECTABILITY; CONCLUSION; 3: Dates, Cocaine, and AK 47s: Moral Conundrums on the Algero-Malian Border; AL-KAMIYŪN: LIFE ON A DATE TRUCK; AL-FRŪD AL-HALĀL: LICIT SMUGGLING; THREATENING THE ORDER OF THINGS; MAFIA PROBLEMS; CONCLUSION; 4: Struggles over Encompassment: Hierarchy, Genealogies, and Their Contemporary Use.
- STATUS, LABOUR, AND EXPLANATIONS OF HUMAN DIFFERENCE IN THE SAHARAGENEALOGICAL GRIDS OF VALUE; RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE NATION-STATE; CONTEMPORARY GENEALOGICAL ENDEAVOURS; KUNTA NORTH AND KUNTA SOUTH; CONCLUSION; 5: Universal Law and Local Containment: Assemblies, qudāh, and the Quest for Civilisation; THE TOUAT: POLITICAL HISTORY AND COLONIAL INTERPRETATIONS; IRRIGATION RECORDS: PROPERTY AND POLITICS; APPEALS TO LEGAL SCHOLARS; TRANSLATING THE PARTICULAR; THE NOTEBOOK OF THE ASSEMBLY OF TIT; CONCLUSION; 6: Settlement, Mobility, and the Daily Pitfalls of Saharan Cosmopolitanism.
- GHETTOES AND QSŪRADRAR: THE EMBATTLED OUTPOST OF ALGERIAN MIDDLE-CLASS MORALITY; TAMANRASSET: AFRICA ALREADY; GAO: PAST VIOLENCE AND FRAGILE BOUNDARIES; CONCLUSION; Conclusion: Saharan Connectivity and the "Swamp of Terror"; Glossary; References; Index; Books in This Series.