Tuareg Society within a Globalized World

Anja Fischer was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. She has been conducting annual fieldwork among nomads in Algeria since 2002. Her research focuses on the economic and linguistic anthropology of nomads in the Sahara. Ines Kohl is senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main interests are concentrated on the anthropology of borderlands and questions of migration, transnationality and identity among the Kel Tamasheq between Niger, Algeria and Libya.

'[This] is a book that comes at the right time, when the need to rethink Tuareg culture - and other African cultures - in their wider (now 'global') context has become widely and deeply felt in African Studies. It embodies vast amounts of first-class fieldwork and deploys insightful conceptual frames in the exploration of the empirical evidence. - I believe it will appeal not only to established academics, but also to students - and not only to those specialising in the study of the Tuareg.' - Dr P.F. de Moraes Farias, Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham; 'By focusing on the transitions of Tuareg societies whose 'classical' delimitations by ethnographers and anthropologists become more and more doubtful - [this book] actually takes into account the contemporary reality of the Tuareg who live in the borderlands between Mali, Niger, Algeria and Libya. In this context they want to explore the consequences of the various aspects of globalisation, and, the various ways the Tuareg respond to and cope with growing influences from the outside.' - Dr Georg Klute, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth

• 1. Tuareg Moving Global: An IntroductionInes Kohl and Anja FischerPART I: WHERE IS SAHARAN ANTHROPOLOGY GOING?2. Research and Nomads in the Age of GlobalizationAnja Fischer 3. Tuareg Networks: An Integrated Approach to Mobility and StasisAlessandra Giuffrida 4. Tuareg City Blues: Cultural Capital in a Global CosmopoleBaz Lecocq PART II: FROM PAST TO PRESENT: ONGOING DISCOURSES5. Foreign Cloth and Kel Ewey IdentityGerd Spittler6. Genesis and Change in the Socio-political Structure of the TuaregDida Badi 7. Tuareg Trajectories of Slavery: Preliminary Reflections on a Changing FieldBenedetta Rossi PART III: DIVERSIFIED NORMS AND VALUES8. The Price of Marriage: Shifting Boundaries, Compromised Agency and the Effects of Globalization on Iklan MarriagesAnnemarie Bouman 9. Debating Beauties: Contested and Changing Female Bodily Aesthetics of Fatness among the TuaregSusan Rasmussen 10. Libya, the ‘Europe of Ishumar’: Between Losing and Reinventing TraditionInes Kohl 11. The Ishumar Guitar: Emergence, Circulation and Evolution, from the Diasporic Performances to the World SceneNadia Belalimat12. Between the Worlds: Tuareg as Entrepreneurs in TourismMarko Scholze PART IV: SAHARA: GLOBAL PLAYGROUND13. Ambiguous Meanings of Ikufar and their Role in Development ProjectsSarah Lunacek14. Resisting Imperialism: Tuareg Threaten US, Chinese and Other Foreign InterestsJeremy Keenan