Saharan frontiers
Subtitle: space and mobility in Northwest Africa
By: edited by James McDougall and Judith Scheele
Series: Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780253001245; 9780253001269; 9780253001313
Subjects: Trade routes; Ethnic relations; Emigration and immigration; Africans; Migrations; Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Situations both alike? : connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara / Peregrine Horden; title: 2. On being Saharan / E. Ann McDougall; title: 3. Saharan trade in classical antiquity / Katia Schörle; title: 4. Frontiers, borderlands, and Saharan/world history / James McDougall; title: 5. The rites of Baba Merzug : diaspora, Ibadism, and social status in the Valley of the Mzab / Fatma Oussedik; title: 6. Celebrating Mawlid in Timimoun : ritual as words in motion, space as time stood still / Abderrahmane Moussaoui; title: 7. Villages and crossroads : changing territorialities among the Tuareg of northern Mali / Charles Grémont; title: 8. Ethnicity and interdependence : Moors and Haalpulaaren in the Senegal Valley / Olivier Leservoisier; title: 9. Mauritania and the new frontier of Europe : from transit to residence / Armelle Choplin; title: 10. Living together and living apart in Nouakchott / Laurence Marfaing; title: 11. Cultural interaction and the artisanal economy in Tamanrasset / Dida Badi; title: 12. Notes on the informal economy in southern Morocco / Mohamed Oudada; title: 13. Garage or caravanserail : Saharan connectivity in al-Khalīl, northern Mali / Judith Scheele; title: 14. Movements of people and goods : local impacts and dynamics of migration to and through the central Sahara / Julien Brachet.