ISBN:
9780226002019
,
0226002012
,
6612239344
,
9786612239342
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 183 pages, [10] pages of plates)
,
Illustrations
DDC:
305.4/896914
Keywords:
Frau
;
Displaced Person
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Squattersiedlung
;
Sudan
;
Khartum
Abstract:
Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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