The never changing world -- A global world of images -- At home in the bush -- Animals in Wodaabe economic and social life -- The cold and the hot season -- Wodaabe ethnic identity -- Gender and power -- The tain starts to fall -- The border town -- Working in the city -- The makers of handicrafts -- Jumare's accident -- Gendered lives -- Dancing in Niamey -- Desire and identity -- Lived relations -- Development and identity: creating subjects

In this book Kristín Loftsdóttir gives the reader a highly personal insight into the lives of the Wodaabe nomads of Niger, who are striving to make a living between the bush and the city. Spending nearly two years as a Wodaabe, within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between the nomadic setting of the bush and the urbanised life-style of the capital, Niamey, she was in a unique position to observe the effects that increasing urbanisation and globalisation, together with the modern tourist industry's preconceptions and demands, have had on the identity and power relations of the Wodaabe.

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