| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: taming unknowns in Sudan -- Towards and anthropology of uncertainty -- Contesting forms: translating poverty and uncertainty -- Insisting on forms: bracketing uncertainties in gold mining -- Standardizing forms: uncertain food supplies -- Establishing urgent forms: uncertainties of ill health -- Conclusion: uncertainty and forms: asking new questions |
| Summary |
Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures |
| Analysis |
Anthropology of Uncertainty, Sudan, Rashaida, Uncertainty, Development, Precarity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rashāyidah (Arab people)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Rashāyidah (Arab people)
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Region (Sudan) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Sudan -- Northern Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785330162 |
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1785330160 |
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