1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910474055503321

Autore

Graw Knut

Titolo

The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East / / edited by Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, : Leuven University Press, 2021

Leuven : , : Leuven University Press, , [2012]

©[2012]

ISBN

9789461663993

9461663994

9789461661258

9461661258

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

304.809

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - Middle East

Migration, Internal - Africa

Electronic books.

Middle East Emigration and immigration

Africa Emigration and immigration

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.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in



rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson.

Sommario/riassunto

Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act

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Record Nr.

UNISA996670478803316

Autore

Lange Gerrit

Titolo

Naiṇī mātā - Cobra Mum : Unearthing and Enacting the Feelings of Nine Himalayan Hindu Goddesses / / Gerrit Lange

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2025

Berlin ; Boston, : De Gruyter, , [2025]

©2025

ISBN

3-11-163149-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 346 p.)

Collana

Religion in Contemporary Asia , , 2944-3180 ; ; 1

Soggetti

PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions

RELIGION / Hinduism / General

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Naiṇī (or Nāginā) is the name of nine Hindu goddesses, who rule over nine villages of Pindar valley in the Indian Himalaya. Seven of these goddesses establish the rule over their territory through a half-year-long journey (yātrā), during which they are carried around, embodied in



the shape of a bamboo pole. To start such a journey, a Naiṇī has to be literally "unearthed": a clay pot is taken from under the ground, which means that she is brought up from Nāglok, the underworld of serpent deities. Through their yātrās, the Naiṇīs re-establish their family ties to the women of their respective village who have married into other villages. The explicit goal of the rituals, festivals and processions devoted to the Naiṇīs is to make them happy and to ease their anger about a lack of worship. Thus, the question what a Naiṇī feels is at the core of their religion. This study approaches this evasive topic from two angles: the emotions named when people tell about her and the feelings displayed in ritual interactions with her. The wide array of feelings "unearthed" in this sense shows that asking about nonhuman emotions can contribute to our understanding of religion in general.