Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Tuaregs
;
Ahaggar Mountains (Algeria)
;
Tuareg
;
Tuareg
Abstract:
Documents in the Tuareg Collection provide a wide variety of cultural, historical and ecological information, circa 1908 to 2004. 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 the above two earlier sources based on fieldwork 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
Note:
Culture Summary: Tuareg - Susan J. Rasmussen - 2010 -- - The Hoggar Tuareg - Henri Lhote - 1944 -- - The living races of the Sahara Desert - L. Cabot Briggs - 1958 -- - Six months among the Ahaggar Tuareg - Maurice Benhazera - 1908 -- - Political systems of pastoral Tuareg in Air and Ahaggar - Johannes Nicolaisen - 1959 -- - Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg: with particular reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr - Johannes Nicolaisen - 1963 -- - Modes of persuasion: gossip, song, and divination in Tuareg conflict resolution - Susan J. Rasmussen - 1991 -- - Reflections on witchcraft, danger, and modernity among the Tuareg - Susan J. Rasmussen - 2004 -- - Disputed boundaries: Tuareg discourse on class and ethnicity - Susan Rasmussen - 1992 -- - Tuareg: Tuareg discourse on class and ethnicity - Susan J. Rasmussen - 2004
