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SUMMARY:Northern Chad: anarchy and social cohesion\, or neither? - Judith 
 Scheele\, All Souls College\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:The Tubu of northern Chad have long been described as ‘anarc
 hic’\, in first travellers’ accounts as much as in the (scarce) coloni
 al sources. They have maintained this reputation until now\, among outside
 rs as well as among their fellow Chadians\, despite (or perhaps because of
 ) their undeniable influence on Chadian state institutions. This reputatio
 n is echoed in the meagre academic literature: the only full-length ethnog
 raphy on Tubu-speaking people (in Niger rather than Chad\, published by Ca
 therine Baroin in 1985) is called ‘Anarchy and social cohesion among the
  Tubu’. This paper is a reflection on this title\, not in order to criti
 cise Baroin’s ethnography\, but rather to push the reflection on its key
  terms further: how useful are the concepts both of ‘anarchy’ and ‘s
 ocial cohesion’ for understanding ethnographic material collected in 201
 2 in Faya-Largeau\, the major town in northern Chad? And\, more generally\
 , how useful are they as (anthropological) categories of analysis?\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
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