Part I. Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective
The Wodaabe in Niger: Structure as Historical Process
A History of Migrations: Placemaking Processes in Diachronic Perspective
Part II. Duuniyaaru: Spaces of Social Interaction
Inter-Ethnic Relations: The Balance of Integration and Conflict
A Meta-Ethnic Social Space: The Continuum of Identity and Difference
Part III. Ladde: Transformations in the Pastoral Realm
From Nomadic Pastoralism to Sedentarization and Economic Diversification
Consequences of the New Spatial Strategies
Part IV. Si'ire: Appropriating the City
New Resources in the Urban Space
Social Interaction in the City
The Translocal Dimension of Urban Migration
Part V. Gassungol Wodaabe: The Translocal Network of the Ethnic Group
The Translocal Community and Social Reproduction
Cultural Change and the Reproduction of Difference.