Who knows tomorrow? : uncertainty in north-eastern Sudan /

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Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threaten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calkins, Sandra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Temas:
Rashāyidah (Arab people)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Social conditions
Northern Region (Sudan) > Social conditions.
Nord (Soudan : Région) > Conditions sociales.
Sudan > Northern Region
Anthropology of Uncertainty, Sudan, Rashaida, Uncertainty, Development, Precarity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: taming unknowns in Sudan
  • Towards and anthropology of uncertainty
  • Contesting forms: translating poverty and uncertainty
  • Insisting on forms: bracketing uncertainties in gold mining
  • Standardizing forms: uncertain food supplies
  • Establishing urgent forms: uncertainties of ill health
  • Conclusion: uncertainty and forms: asking new questions.

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