The bush is sweet: identity, power and development among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger
Spending nearly two years as a Wodaabe, within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between their nomadic and urbanised lifestyles, Kristín Loftsdottír gives the reader a personal insight into the lives of the Wodaabe nomads of Niger, as they strive to make a living between the bush and the cit...
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| Summary: | Spending nearly two years as a Wodaabe, within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between their nomadic and urbanised lifestyles, Kristín Loftsdottír gives the reader a personal insight into the lives of the Wodaabe nomads of Niger, as they strive to make a living between the bush and the city. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical reference and index |
| Physical Description: | 264 S. Ill. 21 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS 7
INTRODUCTION
9
WoDaaBe 11
Ethnographer 14
Doing
Reldwork 15
Theoretical Influences
16
Organization of the Book
22
CHAPTER l:THE EVER CHANCING WORLD
24
Creating the Developing World
27
Pastoral People and Development
30
Niger and Development
33
The Importance of Land
37
In Conclusion
40
CHAPTER
2:
A GLOBAL WORLD OF IMAGES
42
Categorizing the World
43
Representations of Indigenous People
46
Imagining the Fulani
48
In Conclusion
55
CHAPTERjzATHOMEINTHEBUSH
57
The Ecology of the Bush
59
WoDaaBe Homes
61
Living in a Wuro
63
CHAPTER4:ANIMALS IN WODAABE ECONOMICANDSOCIALUFE
67
Djelgul, the Symbol of Ownership
69
The Affection for and Economics of Cows
71
Social Life and Livestock
72
CHAPTERS: THE COLD AND THE HOT SEASON
75
A Letter to a Place Far Away
87
CHAPTER
6:
WODAABE ETHNIC IDENTITY
90
Mbodagansi
92
Today and the PastThe Council of Elders
98
CHAPTER
7:
GENDER AND POWER
101
Construction of Gender
102
Gender Relations
103
legal Marriage and the Lineage
106
The BoqpiDo
108
Resistance and Agency
111
CHAPTER
8:
THE RAIN STARTS TO FALL
114
CHAPTER
9:
THE BORDER TOWN
129
CHAPTERioiWORKINGINTHECITY
137
Migrant Work in the Past
141
Migrant Work Today
143
Relations with the Bush
146
CHAPTER 11:THE MAKERS OF HANDICRAFTS
149
Shame and Survival
154
Ethnic Relations in Niamey
156
CHAPTERizîJUMARE SACCIDENT
160
CHAPTER
13:
GENDERED LIVES
167
Working in the City
170
CHAPTER
14:
DANCING IN NIAMEY
178
Going to the Dance
179
Classification of Dance Permances among the WoDaaBe
184
Diversityand Fractions within Unity
185
CHAPTER
15:
DESIRE AND IDENTITY
191
The Dances
192
CHAPTER
16:
LIVED RELATIONS
200
WoDaaBe Agency
202
WoDaaBe and Development
203
The Handicraft Work
207
Relations of Power
208
Desires and Power
211
CHAPTER
17:
DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY: CREATING SUBJECTS
214
Creating the WoDaaBe Subject
215
CONCLUDING REMARKS
222
APPENDIX I
227
Transforming Experience into a Text
227
APPENDIX II
232
Intersubjectivity
232
APPENDIX III
234
Earlier Research on WoDaaBe
234
References
236
Index
258
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