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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798254903321

Autore

Calkins Sandra

Titolo

Who knows tomorrow? : uncertainty in north-eastern Sudan / / Sandra Calkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2016

ISBN

1-78533-016-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

306.0962

Soggetti

Rashāyidah (Arab people)

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Sudan History

Sudan Ethnic relations

Sudan Social conditions

Sudan Politics and government

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 280

Sommario/riassunto

Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.