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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780653003321

Titolo

North African mosaic [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural reappraisal of ethnic and religious minorities / / edited by Nabil Boudraa, Joseph Krause

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Newcastle, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2007

ISBN

1-282-19141-1

9786612191411

1-4438-0768-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoudraaNabil

KrauseJoseph

Disciplina

305.800961

Soggetti

Ethnology - Africa, North

Religious minorities - Africa, North

Africa, North Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-410) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; BERBER CHRONOLOGY; COPTIC CHRONOLOGY; SAHRAWI CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; PART V; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; PART VI; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book's ambition is to offer the most recent scholarship on North African cultures at a time when the very notion of culture is being re-evaluated in the shifting tides that both associate and divorce the forces of nationalism, globalism and neo-liberalism. Another ambition is to be a readable document about the past and the potential of North African civilizations. Those which have been crystallized into a



polysemic voice from centuries of occupations, exchanges and what is now commonly ...