LEADER 02853 am 22004213u 450 001 9910773100903321 005 20210831120442.0 010 $a3-946198-35-X 024 7 $a10.16994/bai 035 $a(CKB)4100000002678559 035 $a(OAPEN)645078 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002678559 100 $a20180308d|||| uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 10$a<>The Truth about the Desert? 210 $aCologne$cModern Academic Publishing$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (210) 311 $a3-946198-32-5 330 $a"The Truth about the Desert explores the living conditions under which Tuareg refugees from northern Mali rebuild their lives in the Nigerien diaspora and how these conditions affect their self-understandings and cultural practices, established status hierarchies, and religious identity formation. The book counterbalances an earlier scholarly preoccupation with Tuareg nobility by zoning in on two inferior social status groups, the Bellah-Iklan and free-born vassals, which have been neglected in conventional accounts of Tuareg society. By offering a multi-layered analysis of social status and identity formation in the diaspora, it pleads for a more dynamic understanding of Tuareg socio-political hierarchies. Analyzing in detail how both status groups rely on moralizing labels and racial stereotyping to reformulate their own social and ethnic identity, the study highlights refugees? aspirations and capacities to remake their imaginary and material worlds in the face of adverse and often deeply humiliating living conditions. The book provides vital insights for refugee studies and for scholarly debates on ethnicity, social identity formation, and memory politics. Souleymane Diallo earned his PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Cologne. His research interests include forceful migrations and memory politics; Islam, spiritual authority, and power in the Sahara; and the theory and practice of anthropological filmmaking." 517 $a?The Truth about the Desert? 606 $aMali$2bicssc 606 $aBerber (Tuareg)$2bicssc 606 $aNational liberation & independence, post-colonialism$2bicssc 606 $aIslamic life & practice$2bicssc 606 $aEthnic minorities & multicultural studies$2bicssc 606 $aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography$2bicssc 615 7$aMali 615 7$aBerber (Tuareg) 615 7$aNational liberation & independence, post-colonialism 615 7$aIslamic life & practice 615 7$aEthnic minorities & multicultural studies 615 7$aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography 700 $aDiallo$b Souleymane$4aut$01261437 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910773100903321 996 $aThe Truth about the Desert?$92937296 997 $aUNINA