Tuareg : MS25.

Included WorkBenhazera, Maurice. Six mois chez les Touareg du Ahaggar. English.
Included WorkBriggs, Lloyd Cabot, 1909-1975 Living races of the Sahara Desert.
Included WorkLhote, Henri. Touaregs du Hoggar (Ahaggar). English.
Included WorkNicolaisen, Johannes Political systems of pastoral Tuareg in Air and Ahaggar.
Included WorkRasmussen, Susan J., 1949- Culture summary, Tuareg.
Included WorkRasmussen, Susan J., 1949- Modes of persuasion.
Included WorkRasmussen, Susan J., 1949- Reflections on witchcraft, danger, and modernity among the Tuareg.
Included WorkRasmussen, Susan J., 1949- Disputed boundaries.
Included WorkRasmussen, Susan J., 1949- Tuareg.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Africa. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Six months among the Ahaggar Tuareg / Maurice Benhazera -- The living races of the Sahara Desert / L. Cabot Briggs -- The Hoggar Tuareg / Henri Lhote -- Political systems of pastoral Tuareg in Air and Ahaggar ; Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg, with particular reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr / Johannes Nicolaisen -- Modes of persuasion: gossip, song, and divination in Tuareg conflict resolution ; Reflections on witchcraft, danger, and modernity among the Tuareg ; Disputed boundaries, Tuareg discourse on class and ethnicity ; Tuareg, Tuareg discourse on class and ethnicity ; Culture summary, Tuareg / Susan J. Rasmussen.
Scope and content 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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