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dc.contributor.authorDiallo, Souleymane
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-08 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:02:55Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:02:55Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier645078
dc.identifierOCN: 1030816762en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30608
dc.description.abstract"The Truth about the Desert explores the living conditions under which Tuareg refugees from northern Mali rebuild their lives in the Nigerien diaspora and how these conditions affect their self-understandings and cultural practices, established status hierarchies, and religious identity formation. The book counterbalances an earlier scholarly preoccupation with Tuareg nobility by zoning in on two inferior social status groups, the Bellah-Iklan and free-born vassals, which have been neglected in conventional accounts of Tuareg society. By offering a multi-layered analysis of social status and identity formation in the diaspora, it pleads for a more dynamic understanding of Tuareg socio-political hierarchies. Analyzing in detail how both status groups rely on moralizing labels and racial stereotyping to reformulate their own social and ethnic identity, the study highlights refugees’ aspirations and capacities to remake their imaginary and material worlds in the face of adverse and often deeply humiliating living conditions. The book provides vital insights for refugee studies and for scholarly debates on ethnicity, social identity formation, and memory politics. Souleymane Diallo earned his PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Cologne. His research interests include forceful migrations and memory politics; Islam, spiritual authority, and power in the Sahara; and the theory and practice of anthropological filmmaking."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa::1HF Sub-Saharan Africa::1HFD West Africa::1HFDM Malien_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2C Afro-Asiatic languages::2CX Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages::2CXB Berber languagesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independenceen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam::QRPP Islamic life and practiceen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.othercommunity
dc.subject.otherexile
dc.subject.othertuareg
dc.subject.othermemory
dc.subject.otherrefugees
dc.subject.otherFree Negro
dc.subject.otherMali
dc.subject.otherMossa
dc.subject.otherNiamey
dc.subject.otherNiger
dc.title“The Truth about the Desert”
dc.title.alternativeExile, Memory, and the Making of Communities among Malian Tuareg Refugees in Niger
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.16994/bai
oapen.relation.isPublishedBya6e7b6f5-b321-4b99-bf66-dacbeb5d7daa
oapen.relation.isbn9783946198352;9783946198338;9783946198345
oapen.pages210
oapen.place.publicationCologne
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Free Negro - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Negro; Mali - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali; Mossa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossa; Niamey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamey; Niger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger; Tuareg people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
oapen.identifier.ocn1030816762


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