Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi Contributor(s): Isidoros, Konstantina (Author) |
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ISBN: 178831140X ISBN-13: 9781788311403 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | Political Process - General - Political Science | World - African |
Dewey: 305.892 |
LCCN: 2019410420 |
Series: International Library of African Studies |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.10 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - African |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Fabled for more than three thousand 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'. |