von Ines Kohl
How do "modern Nomads" cross the Sahara? What kinds of challenges
and difficulties are they confronted with, which opportunities do they find
in Libya, and how does their life in the newly created Saharan borderland
look like? These and other questions are rised in this book and are
answered - surprisingly - on the basis of beauty and aesthetics. Ideals
of beauty, body characteristics, dress codes and sexual tabues, correlate
with morlas, norms and values and can be interpreted as an indicator of
social change in the Sahara.
The bordercrossing Tuareg have thus formed a veritable "youth culture".
New ideals of beauty, refashioned aesthetics of music, changing traditions
and newly acquired values of money and material things sshow this
nomadic society form a striking new angle.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Tuareg, Imasheŕen, Ishumar
About Ishumar, or Research Between Borders
Fieldworks´ daily life
Awidu tiset! – Give me the Mirror!
Ishumar, Borderliners of the Sahara
The Borderliner Triangle
Zones of Transition
Life in Transit
Libya, the “Ishumars’ Europe“
Afrod to Libya
For the “Tuaregs’ Sons“
Life Strategies in Libya
Tihussay – Beauty, or About the Body’s Value
Fat is Beautiful
“Beauty Benefits the Soul”
The Role of Blood in the Conception of Beauty
Wedding Feasts and Guitar Sounds: The Asthetics of Modern Nomads
The Beautiful Women from “Outside”
Mariama and Hamu: An Ishumar Wedding
Guitar: Bridge between Tradition und Modernity
Traditional Beauty and Beautiful Tradition
Visualizing Beauty
Competition in Beauty and Music
The Attractiveness of Money and the Desirable Beauty of Tangibles
Reimer, Berlin 2009
144 Seiten mit 102 Farbabbildungen und drei Diagrammen,
19 × 25,3 cm
Klappenbroschur
€ 35,00 (D) / sFr 59,80
ISBN 978-3-496-02821-5
Bestellung beim Autor Engelbert Kohl: kohl-expedition@aon.at
http://www.kohl-expedition.com/pages/publikationen.php
