Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara - Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Judith Scheele is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. She is a social anthropologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork in North Africa and the Sahel. She is the author of Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia, Algeria (2009). Klappentext This book describes life on the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Zusammenfassung This book 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! Scheele investigates the history of contemporary patterns of mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Founding saints and moneylenders: regional ecologies and oasis settlement; 2. Saints on trucks: Algerian traders and settlement in the bibl¿d al-s¿d¿n; 3. Dates, cocaine, and AK 47s: moral conundrums on the Algero-Malian border; 4. Struggles over encompassment: hierarchy, genealogies, and their contemporary use; 5. Universal law and local containment: assemblies, qud¿h and the quest for civilisation; 6. Settlement, mobility, and the daily pitfalls of Saharan cosmopolitanism; Conclusion: Saharan connectivity and the 'swamp of terror'; Glossary; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Scheele
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107022126
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02212-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: African Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mali, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Africa / West, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, Algeria, African History, The Sahara, Constitution: government and the state