ISBN:
9781443862899
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xi, 410 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Youngstedt, Scott M Saharan Crossroads : Exploring historical, cultural, and artistic linkages between North and West Africa
DDC:
373.6
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Education, Secondary -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Educational assistance -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Educational assistance
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Nachbarstaat
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Kulturaustausch
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Westafrika
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Sahara
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Nordafrika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Sahara
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Kulturaustausch
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Westafrika
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Nordafrika
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Nachbarstaat
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Geschichte
Abstract:
Saharan Crossroads: Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa counteracts the traditional scholarly conception of the Sahara Desert as an impenetrable barrier dividing the continent by employing an interdisciplinary lens to examine myriad interconnections between North and West Africa through travel, trade, communication, cultural exchange, and correspondence that have been ongoing for several millennia. Saharan Crossroads offers a unique contribution to existing scholarship on the region by uniting a diverse group of African, European, and American scholars working on various facets of trans-Saharan history, social life, and cultural production, and bringing their work together for the first time. This trilingual volume includes eleven chapters written in English, five chapters in French, and three chapters in Arabic, reflecting the multicultural nature of the Sahara and this international project. Saharan Crossroads explores historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between populations living in and on both sides of the Sahara that have led to the emergence of distinctive cultural and aesthetic expressions. This contact has been fostered by a series of linkages that include the trans-Saharan caravan trade, the spread of Islam, the migration of nomadic pastoralists, and European colonization. The book includes three major sections: (1) history, culture, and identity; (2) trans-Saharan circulation of arts, music, ritual performance, and architecture; and (3) religion, law, language, and writing. While the gaze of international political analysts has turned toward the Sahara to follow problematic developments that pose serious threats to human rights and security in the region, it is especially timely to recall that the people and countries of the Sahelo-Saharan world have maintained long
Note:
Acknowledgements: "... support of the West African Research Association and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies for their generous sponsorship of the Saharan Crossroads conferences held in Tangier, Morocco in June 2009 and in Niamey, Niger in July 2011 ..."
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Arabisch: Chapter Seventeen Letter Writing between West and North Africa, Haroun Almahadi Maïga, Chapter Eighteen Mauritanian Women’s Poetry, Fatimatou Bint Abdel Wehab, Chapter Nineteen The Role of Arabic Manuscripts in the Preservation of West Africa’s Islamic Heritage, Abdoulaye Moussa Barazi
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