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Informationen zum Autor Anja Fischer was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. She has been conducting annual fieldwork among nomads in Algeria since 2002. Her research focuses on the economic and linguistic anthropology of nomads in the Sahara. Ines Kohl is senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main interests are concentrated on the anthropology of borderlands and questions of migration, transnationality and identity among the Kel Tamasheq between Niger, Algeria and Libya. Klappentext The Tuareg are an ancient nomadic people who follow Islam and have inhabited the Sahara for millennia. In what ways have the lives of the Tuareg changed! and what roles do they have! in a modern and increasingly globaliZed world? Here! leading scholars explore the many facets of contemporary Tuareg existence: from transnational identity to international politics! from economy to social structure! from music to beauty! from mobility to slavery. A tribe able to move freely across national borders! the Tuareg face the risk of marginalization by national and international politics! and are left without nationality or citizenship. At the same time! the Tuareg are seen as a link between the Arab and African worlds! and their familiarity with the Sahara makes them a port of call for African migrants traversing the desert to reach Europe. This is the first comprehensive study of the Tuareg today! which also explores the ways in which the Tuareg themselves are "moving global." Vorwort Dealing with issues of mobility, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements, this is essential reading for students and scholars of the history, culture and society of the Tuareg, of nomadic peoples, and of North Africa more widely. Zusammenfassung The Tuareg (Kel Tamasheq) are an ancient nomadic people who have inhabited the Sahara, one of the most extreme environments in the world, for millennia. In what ways have the lives of the Tuareg changed, and what roles do they have, in a modern and increasingly globalized world? Here, leading scholars explore the many facets of contemporary Tuareg existence: from transnational identity to international politics, from economy to social structure, from music to beauty, from mobility to slavery. This book provides a comprehensive portrait of Saharan life in transition, presenting an important new theoretical approach to the anthropology and history of the region. Dealing with issues of mobility, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements, this is essential reading for students and scholars of the history, culture and society of the Tuareg, of nomadic peoples, and of North Africa more widely. This book is the first comprehensive study of the Tuareg today, exploring the ways in which the Tuareg themselves are moving global. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Tuareg Moving Global: An IntroductionInes Kohl and Anja FischerPART I: WHERE IS SAHARAN ANTHROPOLOGY GOING?2. Research and Nomads in the Age of GlobalizationAnja Fischer 3. Tuareg Networks: An Integrated Approach to Mobility and StasisAlessandra Giuffrida 4. Tuareg City Blues: Cultural Capital in a Global CosmopoleBaz Lecocq PART II: FROM PAST TO PRESENT: ONGOING DISCOURSES5. Foreign Cloth and Kel Ewey IdentityGerd Spittler6. Genesis and Change in the Socio-political Structure of the TuaregDida Badi 7. Tuareg Trajectories of Slavery: Preliminary Reflections on a Changing FieldBenedetta Rossi PART III: DIVERSIFIED NORMS AND VALUES8. The Price of Marriage: Shifting Boundaries, Compromised Agency and the Effects of Globalization on Iklan MarriagesAnnemarie Bouman 9. Debating Beauties: Contested and Changing Female Bodily Aesthetics of Fatness among the TuaregSusan Rasmussen 10. Libya, the ‘Europe of Ishumar’: Between Losing and Reinventing Tra...
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Dealing with issues of mobility, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements, this is essential reading for students and scholars of the history, culture and society of the Tuareg, of nomadic peoples, and of North Africa more widely.