Key figure of mobility

The nomad

in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
Author:
Ada Ingrid Engebrigtsen University College of Oslo and Akershus ada.i.engebrigtsen@nova.hioa.no

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12379
Keywords:
nomadism; nomadology; Roma; Europe; resistance
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This article discusses the relationship between nomadic people and the figure of the nomad in a European context. Based on a discussion of the presence of the figure of the nomad in European folk imaginary and in the social sciences, from Pierre Clastres's (. . New York: Urizen) work on stateless societies, to Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of Nomadology (1986. . New York: Semiotex(e)) and Braidotti's (. . New York: Columbia University Press) nomadic feminism, the article employs a ‘nomadic’ perspective on ethnographic work of mobile people. It argues that ideas contrasting the nomadic and the state can be put to use for epistemological purposes.

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12
Keywords:
nomadism; nomadology; Roma; Europe; resistance
Print Publication Date:
01 Feb 2017
Online Publication Date:
01 Feb 2017
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© The Authors 2017
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