Saharan frontiers : space and mobility in Northwest Africa / edited by James McDougall and Judith Scheele.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-281) and index.

1. Situations both alike?: connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara / Peregrine Horden -- 2. On being Saharan / E. Ann McDougall -- 3. Saharan trade in classical antiquity / Katia Schor̈le -- 4. Frontiers, borderlands, and Saharan/world history / James McDougall -- 5. The rites of Baba Merzug: diaspora, Ibadism, and social status in the Valley of the Mzab / Fatma Oussedik -- 6. Celebrating Mawlid in Timimoun: ritual as words in motion, space as time stood still / Abderrahmane Moussaoui -- 7. Villages and crossroads: changing territorialities among the Tuareg of northern Mali / Charles Greḿont -- 8. Ethnicity and interdependence: Moors and Haalpulaaren in the Senegal Valley / Olivier Leservoisier -- 9. Mauritania and the new frontier of Europe: from transit to residence / Armelle Choplin -- 10. Living together and living apart in Nouakchott / Laurence Marfaing -- 11. Cultural interaction and the artisanal economy in Tamanrasset / Dida Badi -- 12. Notes on the informal economy in southern Morocco / Mohamed Oudada -- 13. Garage or caravanserail: Saharan connectivity in al-Khalil̄, northern Mali / Judith Scheele -- 14. Movements of people and goods: local impacts and dynamics of migration to and through the central Sahara / Julien Brachet.