...Mehdi Sakatni Abstract A conventional view of nomadic tribes is that motorization—the passage from animal to automobile transportation—brought about the transformation and eventually the obliteration of the nomadic pastoralist lifestyle in the long twentieth century. But through the example...

.... Private LivesManipulating SpacesPublic and nomadic pastoralists might pick the marriage Most works on Iran, particularly those of his- partners of their daughters and sons, decisions torians and political scientists, focus on the that affect the relationships within their kinship state and its...

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... onstage and in films, these actresses helped construct idealized models for generations of Kyrgyz women. The families of the four daughters of Tököldösh came from nomadic backgrounds and South Asia, Africa...

... of was the wife’s mother, who may have had to endure her birth. Thus, women born into a family are some- such treatment herself. times assumed to contribute less than the men. The Traditionally, when a nomadic husband divorces Ma geetiiba hqamnq his wife he retains legal custody of the children...

...” then confiscating the estates of the Pahlavi family was Khosrow Khan Qashqa’i, head of the powerhl and the notables of the former regime, eventually nomadic tribe of Fars. His return from exile, in the placing them under the Alvai Foundation and the spring of 1979, was victorious; but he then tried...

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... Hellenistic and the post-Hellenistic periods. post-Hellenistic the and Hellenistic the during Asia Central of art and archaeology the is research press). fieldof in His (Brepols, 2007); Press, and sity in Migration Central Nomad Asia India Northwest in and Asia Central in Hercules...

... conquest with the pretension to universality the same way every early liberal did, by racially circumscribing the terms of inclusion. “The only solution for this difficulty lies in the consideration that Palestine is not so much occupied by the Arabs as overrun by them. They are nomads, who have created...

... - Introduction cattle nomads, the Baggara. “All are Muslim,” writes R. In this study, I argue that the Arab-oriented central S. O’Fahey, “and [yet] no part of Darfur was ever ethni- government’s biased policies visvis the Darfur non- cally homogeneous. For example, once...

... the Sufis ble stage that a deterritorialized subject reaches: dogmatic distinction of House of Islam versus even a nomadic Sufi subject, in the end, settles, House of War in Arab Islamic Sunni tradition, “effectuates” a being-home and is territorialized, according to which the displacement out of Dar...

...,    The       2010 Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480  – 1889 Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757 3...

... excluded from the Saudi dream on four wheels. Often college or high-school dropouts, unemployed or underemployed, many of them did not fare well in an economy that had been reorganized since the 1970s around public jobs and state-granted privileges. Many had a nomadic and rural background and had only...

... demonstrated the fundamentally arbitrary na- village, the peasant farmers, workers, nomads ture of novelistic givens — character, incident, and traders, and the brutally violent soldiers and so forth — but having done so they effec- and the male and female prostitutes occupy op- tively evacuated...

... with the burden of having to perform for global actors who fixate on the importance of women's presence in “public” became apparent to me on the occasion of an impromptu visit to the NOSW from the European Commission, to which I now turn. Especially for those exiled to Algeria from nomadic encampments...

... between physical movement and political belonging in Western Sahara while it also provides insights into the relationship between loyalty and mobility more broadly. References Acloque Benjamin . “ L'idée de frontière en milieu nomade: héritage, appropriation et implications politiques...

... is “to nomadically wander freely across the claimed that the test was for peaceful purposes, seas and the deserts which lie before her” (182). and for the next twenty-four years, although nu- This nomadic wandering is symbolic of “the in- clear research continued...

..., they are much to Makran from Kerman province to flee an better off than they were in Baluchistan, one of expedition of the Seljuks during the eleventh the poorest areas of the world. One of the main century. At that time, the Baluch were nomads.9 causes of the Baluch “diaspora” to the other...

... and Italian Libya, which were typically staged to perform the supposed scientific advancement and technological superiority of colonial powers over native subjects. If Krais's article highlights how the automobile served as the main currency of colonial mastery, Mehdi Sakatni's argues that even as nomadic...