Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
Autor Judith Scheeleen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mai 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788166454
ISBN-10: 1788166450
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 8 page colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788166450
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 8 page colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Judith Scheele is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. She has carried out extensive field research in Algeria, Mali and Chad, and published highly acclaimed books and articles on Saharan societies past and present, including Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara.
Recenzii
A fascinating travelogue and history of the world's largest hot desert ... Fresh, original and energising
Scheele presents a detailed, often gritty, picture of a fragile world. Her travels trace the web of exchanges, linguistic and material, that crisscross a harsh, vast and sometimes impassable terrain ... Instead of "mental maps of vertical and historically immutable trade routes," Scheele finds a pattern of pathways that, like the grazing routes of the pastoralists' livestock, shifts with changes in climate, economics and politics ... this is a clearsighted and unsentimental study of life on the edge.
In Shifting Sands, Scheele sets out to dispel the many fantasies about the Sahara and give a more accurate picture of a much-misunderstood region. Throughout this engaging study, she favours the local detail over the remote, bird's-eye view, the Saharan experience over the outside perspective... fascinating... much of the two decades' worth of admirable research on which it is based would simply not be possible today
Scheele unveils [a] meticulously investigated narrative, to reveal the realities of the Earth's largest desert. She questions the standard bird's-eye view and zooms in to examine the details ... [and] takes the reader from the ancient Roman Empire to modern African countries and the scenes of contemporary regional battles, exposing fascinating truths about desert life along the journey
A captivating and indispensable work: Scheele clears the dust from our eyes to reveal the intricacies of a region few of us know nearly as well as we might believe.
A gritty, deeply engaged, history of the fusion of peoples whose homeland is the Sahara. This is a fascinating and intimate perspective of the region from the ground-up: complete with plastic sandals, smugglers, migrants, border boom towns upheld by the Sahara's enduring love affair with both camel and truck
A stunningly original and deeply empathetic guided tour of the world's greatest desert ... This is far and away the best book on a distant place that might represent our near future
In this excellent book, the Sahara is given a present and a past as seen from the inside ... Read her beautifully written and compelling account, ready for every preconception you might have held about its subject matter to be overturned
Scheele presents an invigorating alternate vision of the Sahara as a place where social life is deeply intertwined with ecology but which is just as varied and complex as anywhere. It's an immersive view of a too often oversimplified region
Wide sweeping and remorselessly unromantic, Scheele's intention is to bring people into the history of the Sahara, its inhabitants as well as its natural features and also the relationship between the two ... None of the groups studied here are static. On the contrary, many of them - nomads, herders, conquering soldiers, smugglers, migrants - are on the move ... Most of all, this is a work that emphasises change over time
...takes us from the Roman era to the modern day, looking at the religious, cultural and political forces that have shaped this area. In doing so, [Scheele] unpicks a region as complex as it is fascinating, shining a light on the often detrimental impact that the West has had on this incredible land
Praise for Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: 'An irresistible read ... something particular and intensely human'
An academic page-turner ... brilliantly written and thrilling to read
A must-read for anyone interested in the region
Scholarship is impressive, arguments convincing; this is the book many who know the Sahara will wish they had written
Scheele presents a detailed, often gritty, picture of a fragile world. Her travels trace the web of exchanges, linguistic and material, that crisscross a harsh, vast and sometimes impassable terrain ... Instead of "mental maps of vertical and historically immutable trade routes," Scheele finds a pattern of pathways that, like the grazing routes of the pastoralists' livestock, shifts with changes in climate, economics and politics ... this is a clearsighted and unsentimental study of life on the edge.
In Shifting Sands, Scheele sets out to dispel the many fantasies about the Sahara and give a more accurate picture of a much-misunderstood region. Throughout this engaging study, she favours the local detail over the remote, bird's-eye view, the Saharan experience over the outside perspective... fascinating... much of the two decades' worth of admirable research on which it is based would simply not be possible today
Scheele unveils [a] meticulously investigated narrative, to reveal the realities of the Earth's largest desert. She questions the standard bird's-eye view and zooms in to examine the details ... [and] takes the reader from the ancient Roman Empire to modern African countries and the scenes of contemporary regional battles, exposing fascinating truths about desert life along the journey
A captivating and indispensable work: Scheele clears the dust from our eyes to reveal the intricacies of a region few of us know nearly as well as we might believe.
A gritty, deeply engaged, history of the fusion of peoples whose homeland is the Sahara. This is a fascinating and intimate perspective of the region from the ground-up: complete with plastic sandals, smugglers, migrants, border boom towns upheld by the Sahara's enduring love affair with both camel and truck
A stunningly original and deeply empathetic guided tour of the world's greatest desert ... This is far and away the best book on a distant place that might represent our near future
In this excellent book, the Sahara is given a present and a past as seen from the inside ... Read her beautifully written and compelling account, ready for every preconception you might have held about its subject matter to be overturned
Scheele presents an invigorating alternate vision of the Sahara as a place where social life is deeply intertwined with ecology but which is just as varied and complex as anywhere. It's an immersive view of a too often oversimplified region
Wide sweeping and remorselessly unromantic, Scheele's intention is to bring people into the history of the Sahara, its inhabitants as well as its natural features and also the relationship between the two ... None of the groups studied here are static. On the contrary, many of them - nomads, herders, conquering soldiers, smugglers, migrants - are on the move ... Most of all, this is a work that emphasises change over time
...takes us from the Roman era to the modern day, looking at the religious, cultural and political forces that have shaped this area. In doing so, [Scheele] unpicks a region as complex as it is fascinating, shining a light on the often detrimental impact that the West has had on this incredible land
Praise for Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: 'An irresistible read ... something particular and intensely human'
An academic page-turner ... brilliantly written and thrilling to read
A must-read for anyone interested in the region
Scholarship is impressive, arguments convincing; this is the book many who know the Sahara will wish they had written