| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) |
| Series |
African Studies ; v. 142 |
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African Studies
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Photographs; Maps; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Sahara and Its Double; The Lacuna; The Bad Reputation; Alterity Endorsed; Obstacles as Social Facts; 1 A Never-Ending Conquest: Settlement and the Making of a Saharan Town; Regional Disconnections; The Sanūsiyya; The French Colonial Conquest; The Enemy Who Came on Foot; Colonial State-Building; Boom and Bust; Imperial Twilight; Conclusion; 2 Fifty Shades of Khaki: Armed Conflict and Other Entanglements; The Outbreak of War |
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Ongoing Connections'The Enemy of My Enemy is Your Friend'; Suspicions and Departures; Looking Like a State; Plus ça change . . .; Conclusion; 3 Trouble in the Palm Grove: Labour, Status, Ownership; The 2006 Conflict; The Right Kind of History; Labour and Irrigated Agriculture; Property and Possession; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; Conclusion; 4 Tricks of Trade: Production, Protection, and Predation; Fortunes of War: The First Generation of Faya Traders; The One Exception; Local Production and Decentralised Trade; Libya: Wealth at Your Fingertips |
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Rent over Risk: Garages and Other Forms of 'Protection'Rent-Seeking through Authority and Force; Conclusion; 5 Great Ploys and Small Expectations: Accumulation and Dispersal in a Half-World; The Glory of Giving; Raiding and Theft; Kinship and Marriage; The Ties That Bind; Faya as a Half-World; Conclusion; 6 The State Encompassed: Everyday Disorder, the Aesthetics of Violence, and the Political Imagination; Tubu 'Anarchy'; In Praise of Disorder; A Good Fight; Men in Arms; The State Encompassed; Conclusion; Conclusion; Elite Cultures; The Lacuna Revisited; Times, Things, Others; References; Archives Published Works; Index |
| Summary |
Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Daza (Dazaga-speaking people) -- Chad
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Teda (African people) -- Chad
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Daza (Dazaga-speaking people)
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Teda (African people)
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| SUBJECT |
Faya (Chad) -- History
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Faya (Chad) -- Economic conditions
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Faya (Chad) -- Social conditions
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Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (Chad) -- History
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Chad -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001139
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| Subject |
Chad
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Chad -- Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheele, Judith, 1978-
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| ISBN |
110863169X |
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9781108631693 |
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9781108566315 |
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1108566316 |
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