“The book is very well documented, showing a deep knowledge of several social and ecological aspects of Sahrawi lives, and their dynamics of recent transformation. It is written in a fluent and evocative style which is pleasant for the reader.” • Barbara Casciarri, University of Paris 8, France

“I thoroughly enjoyed this book …Volpato has clearly spent a lot of time working in the region and it shows. The Western Sahara and Sahrawi have seen very little engagement with ethnographers and this book fills a huge gap in the anthropological and ethnobiological literature. Volpato masterfully combines research in ethnobiology within a broader context of colonial history, war, politics, and human-nature relations.” • John Richard Stepp, University of Florida

Gabriele Volpato is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. He has investigated different facets of human-nature relationships among Cuban peasants, Sahrawi refugees and nomads of Western Sahara, and Kenyan pastoralists and beekeepers.

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2. Camel Nomadism and Its Collapse in Western Sahara
Chapter 3. Sahrawi Refugees’ Agency toward Camels and the Desert Homeland
Chapter 4. Refugees on Seasonal Nomadism
Chapter 5. A Piebald Landscape
Chapter 6. An Ethnobiological Approach to the Badiya
Chapter 7. Relationality and Multispecies Agency in the Badiya
Chapter 8. Pieces of Badiya in the Camps
Chapter 9. Commodifying Entanglements
Chapter 10. Cultural Change Among Refugees: Challenging the Badiya
Chapter 11. Renegotiating Identities around Camels and the Badiya

Conclusion

References
Index