Within the Tent and at the Crossroads

Travel and Gender Identity among the Tuareg of Niger

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2474587
AutoresSusan J Rasmussen (University of Houston, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen26
Número2
Páginas153-182
Fecha de publicación1998-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.1998.26.2.153
OpenAlexW1565260086
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas24

This essay examines the shaping of gender relations in travel among the seminomadic Tuareg in the Niger Republic. Expressive forms including narrative, conversation, poetry, and song articulate ambivalence toward changing travel practices in a society based on movement, and afundamental preoccupation with inside, outside, and the borders that separate them. Men's and women's travel experiences undermine existing institutions, consequently enmeshing gender identity in new power relations in other domains. These Tuareg data challenge some tendencies of transnational theory to elevate the transcultural to the universal, and offer a perspective on the interaction between gender and forms of hegemony

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Conversation · Gender relations · Hegemony · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Geopolitics · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology