Smugglers and saints of the Sahara : regional connectivity in the twentieth century / Judith Scheele.

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"Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading families, truckers, smugglers and scholars, Judit...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:African studies series ; 120.
Main Author: Scheele, Judith, 1978-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:African studies series ; 120.
Subjects:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
Algeria > Commerce > Mali.
Mali > Commerce > Algeria.
Algeria > Relations > Mali.
Mali > Relations > Algeria.
Borderlands > Algeria.
Borderlands > Mali.
Physical Description:xi, 270 pages : illustrations, maps.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Founding saints and moneylenders: regional ecologies and oasis settlement; 2. Saints on trucks: Algerian traders and settlement in the biblād al-sūdān; 3. Dates, cocaine, and AK 47s: moral conundrums on the Algero-Malian border; 4. Struggles over encompassment: hierarchy, genealogies, and their contemporary use; 5. Universal law and local containment: assemblies, qudāh and the quest for civilisation; 6. Settlement, mobility, and the daily pitfalls of Saharan cosmopolitanism; Conclusion: 7. Saharan connectivity and the 'swamp of terror'.