TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calkins,Sandra
TI  - Who Knows Tomorrow?: Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan 
SN  - 9781785330155
U1  - 306.09625 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Rashāyidah (Arab people)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology of Uncertainty, Sudan, Rashaida, Uncertainty, Development, Precarity
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330162?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785330162
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785330162/original
ER  -