Bush Is Sweet Identity, Power and Development among - Wodaabe Fulani in Niger

Name: Bush Is Sweet Identity, Power and Development among - Wodaabe Fulani in Niger
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ISBN: 9789171066176

ISBN-10: 9171066179

ISBN-13: 9789171066176

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kristï¿½n Loftsdï¿½ttir

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In this book, KristÃn LoftsdÃ³ttir gives the reader a highly personal insight into the lives of the Wodaabe nomads of Niger, who are striving to make a living between the bush and the city. She spent nearly two years as a Wodaabe, living within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between the nomadic setting of the bush and the urbanized life-style of the capital, Niamey. LoftsdÃ³ttir was thus in a unique position to observe the effects that increasing urbanization and globalization, together with the modern tourist industryâ€™s preconceptions and demands, have had on the identity and power relations of the Wodaabe. Interwoven with the abstract scientific observations are the more…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Ever Changing World



A Global World of Images



At Home in the Bush



Animals In WoDaaBe Economic and Social Life



The Cold and the Hot Season



WoDaaBe Ethnic Identity



Gender and Power



The Rain Starts to Fall



The Border Town



Working in the City



The Makers of Handicrafts



JumareG++s Accident



Gendered Lives



Dancing in Niamey



Desire and Identity



Lived Relations



Development and Identity: Creating Subjects


Concluding Remarks



Transforming Experience into a Text



Intersubjectivity



Earlier Research on WoDaaBe


References


Index