1st Edition

The Sahara Past, Present and Future

Edited By Jeremy Keenan Copyright 2007
394 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

This collection examines the Sahara holistically from the earliest (prehistoric) times through the ‘historical’ period to the present and with political direction into the future. The contributions cover palaeoclimatology, history, archaeology (cultural heritage), social anthropology, sociology, politics and international affairs. Structured chronologically, the volume can almost be read as a... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Climate-Environment-Society Nexus in the Sahara from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day  3. Writing Trans-Saharan History: Methods, Sources and Interpretations Across the African Divide  4. The North African Factor in Tajdeed Tradition In Hausa Land, Northern Nigeria  5. The Question of 'Race' in the Pre-Colonial Southern Sahara  6. Conceptualising the Sahara: The World of Nineteenth-Century Beyrouk Commerce  7. Briefing. Approaches to the Archaeology and Environment of the Sahara: The Fazzan Project (1997-2002)  8. Garamantian Agriculture and its Significance in a Wider North African Context: The Evidence of the Plant Remains from the Fazzan Project  9. Cultural Heritage and Conflict: The Threatened Archaeology of Western Sahara  10. Incoming Tourism, Outgoing Culture: Tourism, Development and Cultural Heritage in the Libyan Sahara  11. Funerary Monuments and Horse Paintings: A Preliminary Report on the Archaeology of a Site in the Tagant Region of South East Mauritania - Near Dhar Tichitt  12. La Mauritanie: Un 'Etat-Frontière' au Sahara  13. From Tamanrasset: The Struggle of Sawaba and the Algerian Connection (1957-1966)  14. Clerics, Rebels and Refugees: Mobility Strategies and Networks among the Kel Antessar  15. The Struggle for Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony?  16. Nationalism, Identity and Citizenship in the Western Sahara  17. The UNDP, the World Bank and Biodiversity in the Algerian Sahara  18. Libya  19. Waging War on Terror: The Implications of America's 'New Imperialism' for Saharan Peoples.  Briefing. Looting the Sahara: The Material, Intellectual and Social Implications of the Destruction of Cultural Heritage.  Abstracts.  Personal Biographies

Biography

Jeremy Keenan is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Saharan Studies Programme at the University of East Anglia. He first visited the Tuareg in 1964 and has subsequently written four books and several dozen academic articles on them and related peoples/regions of the Sahara-Sahel. He has also produced a series of films on the cultural heritage of the Sahara. He holds visiting posts at a number of universities