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Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgements --Note on Transliteration --Introduction --Chapter 1. Approaching Slavery in Bīẓān Society --Chapter 2. Changing Configurations of Hierarchy and Dependency --Chapter 3. Slave Women --Chapter 4. The Demography of Western Saharan Slavery --Chapter 5. Gender and Status in the Topography of Work --Chapter 6. The Historical Dynamics of Bīẓān Economy --Chapter 7. Small Dams, Large Dams: Bīẓān Land Tenure and Social Stratification --Chapter 8. The Difference in Identity --Chapter 9. Where Do They Go To? --Notes --Transliteration of Arabic Characters --Bibliography --Index.

"Ending Slavery" offers insights into the "how" of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics designed to bring this institution to an end. Underlying this study is empirical data gathered during two periods of field research in rural central Mauritania. The analysis of life histories of slaves and freed slaves, but also of tributaries and free Moors plays a key role in the book.

"Ending Slavery" offers insights into the "how" of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics designed to bring this institution to an end. Underlying this study is empirical data gathered during two periods of field research in rural central Mauritania. The analysis of life histories of slaves and freed slaves, but also of tributaries and free Moors plays a key role in the book.

®Ending Slavery¬ offers insights into the ®how¬ of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics designed to bring this institution to an end. Underlying this study is empirical data gathered during two periods of field research in rural central Mauritania. The analysis of life histories of slaves and freed slaves, but also of tributaries and free Moors plays a key role in the book.

Die 1995/96 durchgeführte Fallstudie untersucht die Konfigurationen von Hierarchie und Abhängigkeiten im ländlichen Mauretanien wie sie in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten durch den Übergang von der Sklaverei zur "freien" lohnabhängigen Arbeit entstanden sind. Im Zuge dieser Transformation ist eine Form der Herrschaft entstanden, die eine spezifische Konstellation von Sklaven, befreiten Sklaven und ihren ehemaligen Herren umfaßt. Der Autor vergleicht diese Interdependenzen mit den Figuren und Abläufen eines Tanzes, in dem jede Bewegung und Veränderung in einem Gesamtensemble synchronisiert ist. Mit jeder Reallokation in diesem Ensemble wird auch das symbolische Kapital (Status, Prestige) der Spieler neu definiert und verteilt. Autonomie, Freiheit und Emanzipation sind in diesem "Spiel" daher eine streng relative Größe. (pre)

What does it mean to "fit in?" In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people's positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration