Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
BOESEN, Elisabeth ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
Language :
English
Title :
Wodaabe women and the outside world
Publication date :
2010
Main work title :
Translocality. The study of globalisingprocesses from a southern perspective
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idem, "Pratiques spatiales transnationales et stratégies de mobilité des commerçantes tunisiennes", Revue européenne des migrations internationales 21(2005), 131-154;
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and Derrick Stenning, Savannah Nomads (London, 1959).
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idem, Peuls nomades, pp. 247ff.;
idem, Savannah Nomads, p. 140ff.
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idem, "The Metamorphosis of Peripatetic Peoples in Africa", in Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, eds. Joseph C. Berland and Aparna Rao (London, 2004).
Aparna Rao, "Des nomades méconnus: Pour une typologie des communautés péripatétiques", L'homme 95(1985), 97-120;
idem, "The Concept of Peripatetics: An Introduction", in The Other Nomads: Peripatetic Minorities in Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. idem (Cologne, 1987).
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Concerning the function of the jatigi see e.g. Jean Schmitz, "Des migrants aux « notables» urbains: Les communautés transnationales des gens du fleuve Sénégal (Sénégal/Mali/Mauritanie)", in Les nouveaux urbains dans l'espace Sahara-Sahel: Un cosmopolitisme par le bas, eds. Elisabeth Boesen and Laurence Marfaing (Paris, 2007);
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Elisabeth Boesen, "Des localités nomades: Les 'maisons' Wodaabe en brousse et en ville", in Les nouveaux urbains dans l'espace Sahara-Sahel: Un cosmopolitisme par le bas, eds. Elisabeth Boesen and Laurence Marfaing (Paris, 2007).
Schmoll, "Pratiques spatiales", p. 143.
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Schmoll, "Pratiques spatiales", p. 139.
Irek, der Schmugglerzug.
Schmoll, "Pratiques spatiales", p. 139.
Tarrius, Les nouveaux cosmopolitismes.
Cf. de Certeau, L'invention du quotidien.
idem, "Pratiques spatiales", p. 145.
Cf. Kenneth Little, African Women in Towns: An Aspect of Africa's Social Revolution (Cambridge, 1973).
Schmoll, "Pratiques spatiales", p. 147
Hellermann, "Gendered Margins", p. 25.
Margarida M. Marques et al., "Ariadne's Thread: Cape Verdean Women in Transnational Webs", Global Networks 1(2001), 292.
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Mamadou Diouf, "Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism", Public Culture 12(2000), 679-702.
Bruno Riccio, "'Transmigrant' mais pas 'nomades'", Cahiers d'études africaines 46(2006), 95-114.
Boesen, "Des localités nomads."
Marcel Mauss, "Essai sur les variations saisonnières des sociétés Eskimo: Etude de morphologie sociale", L'année sociologique 9(1904-5), 72.
Boesen, "Gleaming Like the Sun. "
Schmoll, "Pratiques spatiales."
Cf. de Bruijn, van Dijk and Foeken, Mobile Africa;
Arjan de Haan and Ben Rogaly, eds., Labour Mobility and Rural Society, (Development Studies) 38 (London, 2002).
See Schmitz, "Des migrants aux «notables» urbains";
Thomas Faist, The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces (Oxford, 2000);
idem, Transnationale Migration als relative Immobilität in einer globalisierten Welt, (Working Papers, Center for Migration, Citizenship and Development) 11 (Bielefeld, 2006).