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Title Nomads and nation-building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi / Konstantina Isidoros
Imprint London : I.B. Tauris, 2020
©2018

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  305.8 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Paperback edition
Descript xv, 288 pages illustrations, map 22 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index
"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
Politisk förföljelse
Flyktingar
Politiska förhållanden
Sociala förhållanden
Political refugees
Politics and government
Sahrawi (African people)
Social conditions
Västsahara
Western Sahara
History
Classmark 305.8927648
ISBN/ISSN 9781838604721 (paperback)
9781788311403
9781786733641
9781786723642
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