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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 the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction Part I: Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective Chapter 1. The Wodaabe in Niger: Structure as Historical Process
Chapter 2. A History of Migrations: Placemaking Processes in Diachronic Perspective
Part II: Duuniyaaru: Spaces of Social Interaction Chapter 3. Inter-ethnic Relations: The Balance of Integration and Conflict
Chapter 4. A Meta-ethnic Social Space: The Continuum of Identity and Difference
Part III: Ladde: Transformations in the Pastoral Realm Chapter 5. From Nomadic Pastoralism to Sedentarization and Economic Diversification
Chapter 6. Consequences of the New Spatial Strategies
Part IV: Si'ire: Appropriating the City Chapter 7. New Resources in the Urban Space
Chapter 8. Social Interaction in the City
Chapter 9. The Translocal Dimension of Urban Migration
Part V: Gassungol Wodaabe: The Translocal Network of the Ethnic Group Chapter 10. The Translocal Community and Social Reproduction
Chapter 11. Cultural Change and the Reproduction of Difference
Conclusion References
Index
About the author
Florian Köhler is currently a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He is also trained as a practitioner in peace-building and conflict-resolution and worked for the German Development Service (DED) in Haiti and for the Civil Peace Service (ZFD) in Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso.
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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...
