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  • Shifting Sands

    A Human History of the Sahara

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  • Saharan Frontiers

    Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

    Modifié par James McDougall, Judith Scheele ...
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    "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

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  • 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

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  • The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

    Form, Duration, Difference

    Modifié par Judith Scheele, Andrew Shryock ...
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    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

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  • Legalism

    Rules and Categories

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  • Legalism

    Community and Justice

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    '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

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  • 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

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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

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