Open AccessKey figure of mobility: the nomad
Author(s) -
Engebrigtsen Ada Ingrid
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
social anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1469-8676
pISSN - 0964-0282
DOI - 10.1111/1469-8676.12379
Subject(s) - stateless protocol , the imaginary , sociology , ethnography , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , key (lock) , feminism , state (computer science) , media studies , anthropology , gender studies , history , art , visual arts , computer science , archaeology , psychoanalysis , psychology , computer security , algorithm
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 ([Clastres, P., 1977]. Society against the state . New York: Urizen) work on stateless societies, to Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of Nomadology (1986. Nomadology . New York: Semiotex(e)) and Braidotti's ([Braidotti, R., 1994]. Nomadic subjects. Embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory . 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.