Saharan frontiers : space and mobility in Northwest Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Scheele, Judith, 1978-, McDougall, James, 1974-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:	Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Subjects:	Trade routes > Sahara. Africans > Sahara > Migrations. Africa, West > Relations > Africa, North. Africa, North > Relations > Africa, West. Sahara > Ethnic relations. Sahara > Emigration and immigration. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Situations both alike? : connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara / Peregrine Horden
2. On being Saharan / E. Ann McDougall
3. Saharan trade in classical antiquity / Katia Schörle
4. Frontiers, borderlands, and Saharan/world history / James McDougall
5. The rites of Baba Merzug : diaspora, Ibadism, and social status in the Valley of the Mzab / Fatma Oussedik
6. Celebrating Mawlid in Timimoun : ritual as words in motion, space as time stood still / Abderrahmane Moussaoui
7. Villages and crossroads : changing territorialities among the Tuareg of northern Mali / Charles Gremont
8. Ethnicity and interdependence : Moors and Haalpulaaren in the Senegal Valley / Olivier Leservoisier
9. Mauritania and the new frontier of Europe : from transit to residence / Armelle Choplin
10. Living together and living apart in Nouakchott / Laurence Marfaing
11. Cultural interaction and the artisanal economy in Tamanrasset / Dida Badi
12. Notes on the informal economy in southern Morocco / Mohamed Oudada
13. Garage or caravanserail : Saharan connectivity in al-Khalīl, northern Mali / Judith Scheele
14. Movements of people and goods : local impacts and dynamics of migration to and through the central Sahara / Julien Brachet.