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Becoming Walāta : a history of Saharan social formation and transformation

Title
Becoming Walāta : a history of Saharan social formation and transformation / Timothy Cleaveland.
Author
Cleaveland, Timothy.
Publication
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2002.

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Description
xxiii, 232 pages : map; 24 cm
Subject
  • Group identity > Sahara > History
  • Social change > Sahara > History
  • Group identity
  • Social change
  • Social conditions
  • Sahara > Social conditions
  • Sahara
  • Mauretanien
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index.
Contents
The journey to Walāta -- I: An introduction to the Sahara and Walāta -- The social utility of static and dynamic histories -- Emigration, sedentarization, and Walāta's changing cultural identities -- II: The Lemḥājīb: Walāta's dominant coalition -- The Lemḥājīb and their emigrant allies and rivals -- Emigration, colonialism, and the decline of the Lemḥājīb -- III: The social formation and transformation of the Lemḥājīb -- Representation, identity, and the formation of the Lemḥājīb.
ISBN
  • 032507027X
  • 9780325070278
LCCN
00061331
OCLC
  • ocm44712836
  • 44712836
  • SCSB-8979787
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library