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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Tuareg society within a globalized world: Saharan life in transition
Author:Fischer, Anja
Year:2010
Issue:91
Pages:307
Language:English
Series:Library of modern Middle East studies
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Tauris Academic Studies
ISBN:9781848853706
Geographic terms:Sahara
Algeria
Burkina Faso
Mali
Niger
Subjects:Tuareg
social change
anthropology
social stratification
marriage
clothing
aesthetics
tourism
music
Abstract:Increasingly forced to switch from nomadic to urban lifestyles over the last few decades, lots of Kel Tamasheq (or Tuareg) in the Sahara are being squeezed into sedentarization. The aim of this book is to identify a population living in deserted areas in the central Sahara and on its Sahelian fringes in the context of 'global interconnectedness'. The three chapters in part I, 'Where is Saharan anthropology going?', clarify new tendencies in the anthropology of the region (Anja Fischer, Alessandra Guiffrida, Baz Lecocq). The chapters in part II, 'From past to present: ongoing discourses', connect historic factors to recent changes: Gerd Spittler analyses the relationship between clothing and identity among the Kel Ewey of Timia, Niger. Dida Badi looks at traditional social stratification and sedentary processes in Algeria, and Benedetta Rossi gives an overview of the status of the 'iklan', former slaves. Part III, 'Diversified norms and values', contains chapters on 'iklan' marriages in Burkina Faso (Annemarie Bouman), changing female bodily aesthetics among the Tuareg of Mali (Susan Rasmussen), the attractiveness of Libya for impoverished 'ishumar' from Mali and Niger (Ines Kohl), the development of the musical style 'al guitara' since the 1970s (Nadia Belalimat), and Tuareg involved in tourism in north Niger (Marko Scholze). The two chapters in the last part, 'Sahara: global playground', deal with Kel Tamasheq relations with Europeans and their expected role in development projects (Sarah Lunacek) and the Tuareg rebellion in northern Niger in 2007 (Jeremy Keenan). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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