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Who Knows Tomorrow? : Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan / Sandra Calkins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785330155
  • 9781785330162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09625
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations and Glossary -- 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
Summary: Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations and Glossary -- 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

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Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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