Download or read book Nomads of Mauritania written by Diane Himpan Sabatier and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nomads of Mauritania' aims at understanding the cultural identity (religious beliefs, language, values, relationships with others) of the Mauritanian nomads through their geographical environment, an original history, their lifestyle, caste system, diet, housing and crafts and how it is revealed by their art, materially expressed on the everyday objects and the body and defined for the first time as geometrical-abstract and respectively as ephemeral usual art and ephemeral living art. Furthermore, what has become of the nomads of Mauritania with the climate warming and the economic and cultural globalization and to what extent are they still the pillars and heart of the Mauritanian society of today?
Download or read book Nomads of the Sahel written by Patrick Marnham and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973 an international disaster was declared in the Sahelian countries of West Africa (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad). The picture presented to the world at the time was of a natural disaster of the first order, affecting six very poor nations. A prolonged drought had led to the disappearance of almost all their livestock, destroyed their way of life and resulted in mass famine. This had been caused by a change in climate which might continue. The traditionally self-sufficient nomadic peoples of West Africa were permanently weakened. The situation described amounted to no less than a sudden and complete collapse of living conditions in a vast area of the world. But was this an accurate description of events in the Sahel at that time? Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.
Download or read book Barefoot Through Mauretania written by Odette Du Puigaudeau and published by Hardinge Simpole Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work, Arts et Coutumes des Maures, a detailed study, in words and drawings, of the cultural world of the nomads of Mauretania. The present work explains how she came to write it. Barefoot Through Mauretania is an account of her first journey across the country by camel in 1933-4, with her life-long companion, Marion Senones. The book records the adventures of the two women during that year, often with a touch of humour. Above all, however, it presents a picture of a way of life that has, as they feared, almost vanished, and their determination that it should be recorded. Odette du Puigaudeau wrote a number of other books on different aspects of nomad life, such as the salt caravans and date markets, as well as articles on prehistoric rock-drawings, and a charming tribute to her pet leopard, Rachid."
Download or read book Return to the Sources written by H. W. Wabnitz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mauritania s Campaign of Terror written by Janet Fleischman and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Code Pastoral of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Return to the Sources written by Hans-Werner Wabnitz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper outlines the content and impact of the Code Pastoral (2000, effective 2004) of Mauritania. The text recognizes the traditional common property regime for nomads on pastoral lands, classified as public domain (Art 9, 13), a shift from exclusive ownership rights. Nomadic livestock raising accounts for 75% of Mauritania's agricultural output, but receives only 10% of agricultural budget and donor support, compared to sedentary agriculture - a policy error. The Code has been drafted by herders themselves, in defense against the increasing encroachment of farmers into rangelands. The arid climate of the Sahel forces herders to "follow the clouds" - search for pasture and water, to engage in distant extended north-south treks, the "transhumance", recognized by traditional rules and the Islamic law (Sharia). So the herders codified their right to mobility (Art. 10) and access to pastoral resources (Art. 11). The motives of the legislation declare nomadism "comme vecteur d'un systeme de valeur culturelle". The Code embodies the central notions of the UN environmental conventions. The Code qualifies as "best practice" because of its clarity and. Its 46 short paragraphs spell out its objective, define legal and customary notions, lay down basic principles and rights and provide for realistic, self-executory conflict resolution procedures. Appeal to state tribunals is envisaged as last resort. By resorting to mediation and arbitration, the Code relies on social pressure rather than state authority, fostering social peace. The Code contrasts with existing legislation, modeled after French legal tradition, as well as the case-law-only textbooks of Islamic law. Its genesis, reliance on traditional rights, and its form are revolutionary - possibly explaining implicit hostility of the administration to achieve effectiveness (four years). Herder's associations and donors promote the "new-old" legislation within the population through sketches, pictogrammes, poems and songs. Early experiences seem to justify a positive assessment of its application.
Download or read book Nomads written by Peter Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomads of the Sahel written by Patrick Marnham and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomads and the State in Africa written by Victor Azarya and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the implications of state-formation or 'statelessness' on the economy of nomadic pastoralists, on their social stratification, on the extent of sedentarization and on transformations in their ethno-cultural identity. It also examines the effects of such pre-colonial changes on different groups' relative incorporation or marginalization in the colonial system and in the successor post-colonial states.
Download or read book Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa written by Dawn Chatty and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.
Download or read book Nomades de Mauritanie written by Himpan-Sabatier|Brigitte Himpan Diane Himpan-Sabatier (Himpan) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Health and Nutrition in the Sahel written by Allan G. Hill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst people and animals, the economic uncertainty introduced by interannual climactic variations, as well as the role of traditional systems of social and economic organisation in providing some support during periods of need. The findings presented here are published in co-operation with the Sahel Institute, a regional research organisation set up in the early 1970s with representation from eight Sahelian countries - Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta.
Download or read book Nomads of the Sahara written by Warren J. Halliburton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, culture, and daily life of the four nomadic groups that make their homes in the Sahara Desert.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East written by Jamie Stokes and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East is a two-volume A-to-Z reference to the history and culture of the peoples of Africa and the Middle East.
Download or read book Nomadic Theory written by Rosi Braidotti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has, over the past decade, crept into continental philosophy, queer theory, and feminist, postcolonial, techno-science, media, and race studies, as well as into architecture, history, and anthropology. This collection provides a core introduction to Braidotti's nomadic theory and its innovative formulations, which playfully engage with Deleuze, Foucault, Irigaray, and a host of political and cultural issues. Arranged thematically, essays begin with such concepts as sexual difference and embodied subjectivity and follow with explorations in technoscience, feminism, postsecular citizenship, and the politics of affirmation. Braidotti develops a distinctly positive critical theory that rejuvenates the experience of political scholarship. Inspired yet not confined by Deleuzian vitalism, with its commitment to the ontology of flows, networks, and dynamic transformations, she emphasizes affects, imagination, and creativity and the politics of radical immanence. Incorporating ideas from Nietzsche and Spinoza as well, Braidotti establishes a critical-theoretical framework equal parts critique and creation. Ever mindful of the perils of defining difference in terms of denigration and the related tendency to subordinate sexualized, racialized, and naturalized others, she explores the eco-philosophical implications of nomadic theory, feminism, and the irreducibility of sexual difference and sexuality. Her dialogue with technoscience is crucial to nomadic theory, which deterritorializes the established understanding of what counts as human, along with our relationship to animals, the environment, and changing notions of materialism. Keeping her distance from the near-obsessive focus on vulnerability, trauma, and melancholia in contemporary political thought, Braidotti promotes a politics of affirmation that has the potential to become its own generative life force.
Download or read book Nomades de Mauritanie written by Brigitte Himpan and published by Editions Academia. This book was released on 2018 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomades de Mauritanie' vise à comprendre l'identité culturelle des nomades mauritaniens à travers leur environnement géographique, histoire, mode de vie, système social, alimentation, habitat et artisanat et comment elle est révélée par leur art exprimé, sur les objets usuels et le corps et défini pour la première fois comme géometrico-abstrait et respectivement comme art usuel éphémère et art vivant éphémère. De plus, que sont devenus les nomades de Mauritanie et dans quelle mesure sont-ils encore les piliers et le coeur de la société mauritanienne d'aujourd'hui ?
Download or read book Savannah Nomads written by Derrick J. Stenning and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1959 account of the Nomadic pastoral Fulani of Bornu, Northern Nigeria, begins with a brief historical sketch of the ancient kingdom of Bornu, and the Holy War of the nineteenth century and its repercussions. A detailed analysis of the family structure of the pastoralists (or Wodaabe) follows. The volume covers their organization into lineage groups, their forms of marriage and of inheritance, the status and functions of leaders in the lineage group and the cattle camps, and the central place the herds occupy in the social structure. The volume covers the impact on the traditional structure and way of life of the British administration, in particular the effects of the introduction of village headships and of new methods of taxation. A concluding chapter describes current plans for improving the general economy of the pastoralists, by developing various modifications of their methods of agricultural and animal husbandry, and by establishing forms of settlement.
