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Books : History : Africa : Mauritania
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Mauritania and understandings of the historical, social, political and geostrategic trajectories of the country have suffered from a lack of in-depth study in the social sciences. Consequentially, interpretations lacking in rigour in terms of their social complexity have abounded. In order to break with the weak, clichéd and unsubtle analyses in this complex social space, this book brings together contributions from leading Mauritanian scholars engaged in a unique collaborative project with academics from outside the country. This book aims to bring new perspectives to the historically established disjuncture between the national and international environments, and local, regional and global factors.
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The core of this work, with more than 300 entries covering a wide variety of topics, is comprehensive and well written. Most academic and larger public libraries will want to acquire this compact overview of one of the least-studied countries in Africa. --ARBA
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"In the life of a tourist who travels a bit far, I think that at a certain point, a question necessarily arises: 'But what have I come here for?' A question that sets in motion a great cinema of justification to oneself, so that one doesn't have to seriously say to oneself: 'I'm here doing nothing.'"
In 1997 the celebrated Italian novelist and essayist Gianni Celati accompanied his friend, filmmaker Jean Talon, on a journey to West Africa which took them from Mali to Senegal and Mauritania. The two had been hoping to research a documentary about Dogon priests, but frustrated by red tape, their voyage became instead a touristic adventure. The vulnerable, prickly, insightful Celati kept notebooks of the journey, now translated by Adria Bernardi as Adventures in Africa. Celati is the privileged traveler, overwhelmed by customs he doesn't understand, always at the mercy of others who are trying to sell him something he doesn't want to buy, and aware of himself as the Tourist who is always a little disoriented and at the center of the continual misadventures that are at the heart of travel.
Celati's book is both a travelogue in the European tradition and a trenchant meditation on what it means to be a tourist. Celati learns to surrender to the chaos of West Africa and in the process produces a work of touching and comic descriptions, in the lucid and ironic prose that is his hallmark. Hailed as one of the best travelogues on Africa ever written and awarded the first Zerilli-Marimó prize, Adventures in Africa is a modest yet profound account of the utter discombobulation of travel.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1825 edition by Hahn, Leipzig.
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Cet ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la palmeraie de Tijigja et de ses habitants, depuis l'arrivée des Idaw'Ali au milieu du XVIIe siècle jusqu'à la création de la République islamique de Mauritanie Il accompagne les Idaw'alià travers leurs migrations depuis la ville sainte de Shiguitti, l'expansion de l'oasis après sa fondation àcaractère à la fois authentique et mythique, l'implantation des ksour, le développement de la palmeraie
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Oubliées pendant quarante ans dans un coffret, ceslettres de Muaritanie ont été écrites par un sous-lieutenant de vingt ans affecté au Groupe Nomade deChinguetti Mieux que dans un carnet de route, lesimpressions à vif qu'il donne à ses parents sont untémoignage du Sahara des Maures et de la vie méharisteau lendemain de la guerre de 1945
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From the vast desert stretches of the North, for ages crossed by cameleer nomads (the Moors), to the lands of the southern Sahel, with their plains and the Senegal River valley, that are the world of Black African shepherds and farmers, Mauritania is an extremely unusual, motley country. To the east, the absolute desert of the immense frontier confines, where man is absent, gives way to large sombre rocky plateaus, the historic centre of the country, broken by long steep ridges and dunes that come to rest, in the west, in an Atlantic Ocean whose mighty waves break along a 700-kilometres coastline: the waters of this ocean, among the richest of the Earth, explain both the passage of great flocks of migratory birds and the importance of the fishing activities.
Belonging both to the Sahara and the Sahel, historically continental and increasingly coastal, Mauritania, by the juxtaposition of its various societies, represents a dual culture: Arab world, African world. It offers a great diversity of landscapes and populations as well as a rare, often unsuspected wealth of historical and multicultural points of interest, on the interface of two apparently remote worlds, yet whose complementary nature for centuries fostered intense exchanges between black Africa and the Maghreb, to which the Mauritanian architectural heritage and many features of its social organisation bear witness.
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A comprehensive economic, political, and social portrait of the key constituents in the conflict over the Western Sahara.
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West African Awdaghost (Tegdaoust) emerged as a vital medieval trade center before its decline in the sixteenth century AD. Extensively excavated, and accompanied by a large body of published material, Awdaghost provides a unique opportunity for the application of household archaeology to a West African settlement. By examining the building sequences of the habitation complexes, with their evolving space allocations, this monograph demonstrates how the household units in Awdaghost reflect fluctuating social organization and economic conditions.
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