Politekonomiia natrona vre-gione Borku (Respublika Chad) [traduit du russe]

Julien Brachet () and J. Scheele
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Julien Brachet: DEVSOC - UMR Développement et Sociétés - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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Abstract: Natron is mined by hand in open-air mines throughout the Chadian Sahara. In the main mine in Borkou, it is taxed by a local "traditional chief" as well as by a government representative. The way this fiscal arrangement came about historically shows how "traditional chiefs" and "the state" need each other in order to claim a particular and particularly restricted kind of sovereignty in the region. This is true of the Chadian state more generally, marked by a doubling up of "official" and "traditional" administrative hierarchies, and a close but rarely simple articulation of the local and the national level.

Keywords: TCHAD; BORKOU ENNEDI TIBESTI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Антропологии/Anthropologies, 2021, 1, pp.62-77. ⟨10.33876/2782-3423/2021-1/62-77⟩

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DOI: 10.33876/2782-3423/2021-1/62-77

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