{"product_id":"9781788311403","title":"Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara : Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Konstantina Isidoros\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa.  Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of this unique desert society's life in one of Earth's most extreme ecosystems. Her extensive anthropological research, conducted over nine years, illuminates an Arab-Berber Muslim society in which men wear full face veils and are matrifocused toward women, who are the property-holders of tent households forming powerful matrilocal coalitions. Isidoros offers new analytical insights on gender relations, strategic tribe-to-state symbiosis and the tactical formation of 'tent-cities'.\u003cbr\u003eThe book sheds light on the indigenous principles of social organisation - the centrality of women, male veiling and milk-kinship - bringing positive feminist perspectives on how the Sahrawi have innovatively reconfigured their tribal nomadic pastoral society into globalising citizen-nomads constructing their nascent nation-state. This is essential reading for those interested in anthropology, politics, war and nationalism, gender relations, postcolonialism, international development, humanitarian regimes, refugee studies and the experience of nomadic communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781788311403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"I.B. Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40688763044046,"sku":"9781788311403","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781788311403","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}