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  • Shifting Sands

    A Human History of the Sahara

    par Judith Scheele ...
    A “detailed, often gritty, picture of a fragile world” (The Wall Street Journal) that tells the history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present, showing how Saharans have navigated scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenges of the desert environmentWhat comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $24.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

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  • Saharan Frontiers

    Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

    Modifié par James McDougall, Judith Scheele ...
    Collections series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Makes a compelling case for the importance of Saharan history, both in its own right and in its articulations with the histories of other regions." — American EthnologistThe Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

    Form, Duration, Difference

    Modifié par Judith Scheele, Andrew Shryock ...
    Collections series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought." —Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle EastDespite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara

    Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century

    par Judith Scheele ...
    Collections series African Studies
    Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading families, truckers, smugglers and scholars, Judith Scheele investigates the history of contemporary patterns of mobility from the late nineteenth ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

    Form, Duration, Difference

    Modifié par Judith Scheele, Andrew Shryock ...
    Collections series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline and how Middle Eastern anthropologists have developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region's political, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Legalism

    Rules and Categories

    Modifié par Paul Dresch, Judith Scheele ...
    Collections series Legalism
    Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside. Anthropologists, meanwhile, have treated rules as analytic errors and categories as an imposition by outside powers or by analysts, leaving a very thin notion of ... En savoir plus

    $125.59 CAD

  • Legalism

    Community and Justice

    Modifié par Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele ...
    Collections series
    'Community' and 'justice' recur in anthropological, historical, and legal scholarship, yet as concepts they are notoriously slippery. Historians and lawyers look to anthropologists as 'community specialists', but anthropologists often avoid the concept through circumlocution: although much used (and abused) by historians, legal thinkers, and political philosophers, the term remains strikingly ... En savoir plus

    $121.99 CAD

  • The Value of Disorder

    Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara

    par Julien Brachet, Judith Scheele ...
    Collections Livre 142 - African Studies
    Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

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    Shifting Sands

    A Human History of the Sahara

    par Judith Scheele ...
    Lu par Lucy Paterson ...

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    An expansive history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present that shows how Saharans have, over time, built complex and cosmopolitan lives despite scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenges of the desert environmentWhat comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, climate change, civil war, ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town

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    Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation ... En savoir plus

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  • The Passenger: Turkey

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

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    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... En savoir plus

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