Saharan Frontiers Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

Name: Saharan Frontiers Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
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ISBN: 9780253001269

ISBN-10: 0253001269

ISBN-13: 9780253001269

Edition: 2012

Authors: James McDougall, Judith Scheele

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The 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 isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's "islands" and "shores" and the connections and commonalities that unite the region. Contributors draw on extensive…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

James McDougall is Assistant Professor in History at Princeton University. He has edited Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa (2003).



Acknowledgments


Note on Spelling and Transliteration


Introduction


Time and Space in the Sahara




Framing Saharan Africa



Situations Both Alike?


Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara




On Being Saharan




Saharan Trade in Classical Antiquity




Frontiers, Borderlands, and Saharan/World History




Environment, Territory and Community



The Rites of Baba Merzug


Diaspora, Ibadism, and Social Status in the Valley of the Mzab




Celebrating Mawlid in Timimoun


Ritual as Words in Motion, Space as Time Stood Still




Villages and Crossroads


Changing Territorialities among the Tuareg of Northern Mali




Ethnicity and Interdependence


Moors and Haalpulaaren in the Senegal Valley




Strangers. Space, and Labor



Mauritania and the New Frontier of Europe


From Transit to Residence




Living Together and Living Apart in Nouakchott




Cultural Interaction and the Artisanal Economy in Tamanrasset




Economies of Movement



Notes on the Informal Economy in Southern Morocco




Garage or Caravanserail


Saharan Connectivity in Al-Khalil, Northern Mali




Movements of People and Goods


Local Impacts and Dynamics of Migration to and through the Central Sahara



Glossary


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index