Sandra Calkins

Who Knows Tomorrow?

Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

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Produktbeschreibung

Uncertainty, though intertwined with all human activity, is experienced differently-sometimes obsessed over and other times ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns, which at times present debilitating problems, but also may offer opportunities to create other futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781785330155
• ISBN-10: 1785330152
• Artikelnr.: 44734570

Autorenporträt

Sandra Calkins is assistant professor for anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Law, Organization, Science, and Technology group at the University of Halle. She has conducted research in Sudan and Uganda and published on questions of existential uncertainty, reflexivity, health and nutrition. In 2016, she won the young scholar award of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) African Studies Association in Germany (VAD).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations and Glossary
Map
Introduction: Taming Unknowns in Sudan
Chapter 1. Towards an Anthropology of Uncertainty
Chapter 2. Contesting Forms: Translating Poverty and Uncertainty
Chapter 3. Insisting on Forms: Bracketing Uncertainties in Gold Mining
Chapter 4. Standardizing Forms: Uncertain Food Supplies
Chapter 5. Establishing Urgent Forms: Uncertainties of Ill Health
Conclusion: Uncertainty and Forms: Asking New Questions
References
Index