Space, place and identity : Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st century /

"Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Köhler, Florian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
Series:Integration and conflict studies ; v. 21.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Wodaabe (African people) > Niger > Social conditions > 21st century.
Group identity > Niger.
Rural-urban migration > Niger.
Nomads > Sedentarization > Niger.
Identité collective > Niger.
Exode rural > Niger.
Nomades > Sédentarisation > Niger.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Group identity
Nomads > Sedentarization
Rural-urban migration
Niger
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective
  • The Wodaabe in Niger: Structure as Historical Process
  • A History of Migrations: Placemaking Processes in Diachronic Perspective
  • Part II. Duuniyaaru: Spaces of Social Interaction
  • Inter-Ethnic Relations: The Balance of Integration and Conflict
  • A Meta-Ethnic Social Space: The Continuum of Identity and Difference
  • Part III. Ladde: Transformations in the Pastoral Realm
  • From Nomadic Pastoralism to Sedentarization and Economic Diversification
  • Consequences of the New Spatial Strategies
  • Part IV. Si'ire: Appropriating the City
  • New Resources in the Urban Space
  • Social Interaction in the City
  • The Translocal Dimension of Urban Migration
  • Part V. Gassungol Wodaabe: The Translocal Network of the Ethnic Group
  • The Translocal Community and Social Reproduction
  • Cultural Change and the Reproduction of Difference.

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