Edition |
Paperback edition |
Descript |
xv, 288 pages illustrations, map 22 cm |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index |
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"Fabled for more than 3,000 years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of this unique desert society's life in one of Earth's most extreme ecosystems. Her extensive anthropological research, conducted over nine years, illuminates an Arab-Berber Muslim society in which men wear full face veils and are matrifocused toward women, who are the property-holders of tent households forming powerful matrilocal coalitions. Isidoros offers new analytical insights on gender relations, strategic tribe-to-state symbiosis and the tactical formation of "tent-cities. The book sheds light on the indigenous principles of social organisation - the centrality of women, male veiling and milk-kinship - bringing positive feminist perspectives on how the Sahrawi have innovatively reconfigured their tribal nomadic pastoral society into globalising citizen-nomads constructing their nascent nation-state." -- Publisher's description |
Subject |
Since 1975
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Politisk förföljelse
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Flyktingar
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Politiska förhållanden
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Sociala förhållanden
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Political refugees
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Politics and government
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Sahrawi (African people)
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Social conditions
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Västsahara
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Western Sahara
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History
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Classmark |
305.8927648
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ISBN/ISSN |
9781838604721 (paperback) |
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9781788311403 |
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9781786733641 |
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9781786723642 |
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