Nomads and nation-building in the Western Sahara : gender, politics and the Sahrawi
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Isidoros Konstantina ;
- Editeurs : London New York [N.Y.] I.B. Tauris ;
- Date d'édition : 2018
- ISBN : 978-1-78831-140-3, 1-78831-140-X
- Sujets : Sahraouis -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Sahara occidental 1975-...., Sahraouis, Réfugiés politiques, Rôle selon le sexe, Politique et gouvernement, Conditions sociales, Ethnologie, Western Sahara -- Social conditions, Western Sahara
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-288 p.), : Ill., carte, couv. ill. en coul., 23 cm
- Pays de publication : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : International library of African studies, 62,
Notes
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Résumé
'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