Tuareg / Maurice Benhazera [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benhazera, Maurice, author.

Series:

EHRAF world cultures.

EHRAF world cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2010.

Summary:

This collection of 10 documents, all in English, provides a wide variety of cultural, historical and ecological information, circa 1908 to 2004, on the Tuareg. The Tuareg are agro-pastoralist people living in the northern and western African countries who speak several dialects of Temacheg. Maurice Benhazera, a French army interpreter who visited the Ahaggar region in 1905, describes pre-colonial Tuareg culture and daily life. Henri Lhote provides the first systematic description of Taureg society by a professional ethnologist based on materials (mostly relating to political organization, social classes, marriage system, descent, childbirth and adolescent) collected in 1929-1940. Cabot L. Briggs critiques Benhazera and Lhote based on fieldwork he conducted in 1956. Nicolaisen covers a broad range of themes in Tuareg social organization and cultural ecology as observed in 1951-1962. The remaining articles by Rasmussen explore particular themes including conflict management practices, changes relating to witchcraft and morality, dynamics of class and ethnicity, and local perceptions of health and illness. Most of the information in these sources comes from the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Air mountains located, respectively, in Algeria and Niger.

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