The Bush Is Sweet: Globalization, Identity and Power Among Wodaabe Fulani in Niger - Tapa blanda

Loftsdóttir, Kristín

 
9789171066176: The Bush Is Sweet: Globalization, Identity and Power Among Wodaabe Fulani in Niger
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ISBN 10: 9171066179 ISBN 13: 9789171066176
Editorial: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2008

Sinopsis

In this book Kristín Loftsdóttir 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. Spending nearly two years as a Wodaabe, within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between the nomadic setting of the bush and the urbanised life-style of the capital, Niamey, she was in a unique position to observe the effects that increasing urbanisation and globalisation, together with the modern tourist industry's preconceptions and demands, have had on the identity and power relations of the Wodaabe. Interwoven with the abstract scientific observations are the more personal reflections and analyses of a young white woman on living within, and sharing all aspects of, the everyday lives of the Wodaabe with the broad spectrum of reactions which this entails. These sensitively written and honest descriptions, including details of what the author at times experiences as her own shortcomings within her project, give a most interesting dimension to the work not always found in anthropological studies which means that this book should appeal to a wider readership than might initially be expected.

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In this book Kristín Loftsdóttir 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. Spending nearly two years as a Wodaabe, within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between the nomadic setting of the bush and the urbanised life-style of the capital, Niamey, she was in a unique position to observe the effects that increasing urbanisation and globalisation, together with the modern tourist industry's preconceptions and demands, have had on the identity and power relations of the Wodaabe. Interwoven with the abstract scientific observations are the more personal reflections and analyses of a young white woman on living within, and sharing all aspects of, the everyday lives of the Wodaabe with the broad spectrum of reactions which this entails. These sensitively written and honest descriptions, including details of what the author at times experiences as her own shortcomings within her project, give a most interesting dimension to the work not always found in anthropological studies which means that this book should appeal to a wider readership than might initially be expected.

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Editorial
The Nordic Africa Institute
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9171066179
ISBN 13 
9789171066176
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Número de páginas
266
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