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The lesser gods of the Sahara : social change and contested terrain amongst the Tuareg of Algeria
The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they were visited by a young English anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan. During the course of seven years, Keenan studied their way of life, the social, political and economic changes that had taken place in their society since traditional, pre-colonial times, and their resistance and adaptation to the modernising forces of the new Algerian state. In 1999, following eight years during which Algeria's Tuareg were effectively isolated from the outside world as a result of Algeria's political crisis, Keenan returned to visit them once again. Following a further four years of study, he has written a series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg in the forty years since independence.
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The Lesser Gods of the Sahara
The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they were visited by a young English anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan. During the course of seven years, Keenan studied their way of life, the social, political and economic changes that had taken place in their society since traditional, pre-colonial times, and their resistance and adaptation to the modernising forces of the new Algerian state. In 1999, following eight years during which Algeria's Tuareg were effectively isolated from the outside world as a result of Algeria's political crisis, Keenan returned to visit them once again. Following a further four years of study, he has written a series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg in the forty years since independence.
1. From Tit (1902) to Tahilahi (2002) - A Reconsideration of the Impact of and Resistance to French Pacification and Colonial Rule by the Tuareg of Algeria (the Northern Tuareg) 2. Ethnicity, Regionalism and Political Stability in Algeria's Grand Sud 3. Dressing for the Occasion - Changes in the Symbolic Meanings of the Tuareg Veil 4. The End of the Matriline? The Changing Roles of Women and Descent amongst the Algerian Tuareg 5. The Last Nomads - Nomadism among the Tuareg of Ahaggar (Algerian Sahara) 6. The Lesser Gods of the Sahara 7. Contested Terrain - The Threat of Mass Tourism to the Environment and Cultural Heritage of Algeria's Saharan Regions
'The Lesser gods of the Sahara is a richly informative volume.' - Mediterraneans (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
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A love spart
This beautifully filmed documentary was shot in Niger, in the barren landscape of the desert, where a nomadic tribe, the Tuareg, keep their traditional ways. A charismatic teenager, Rhaissa, is about to marry a man she has never met. She learns from her girlfriend Fatima that her husband-to-be is not very handsome nor has an abundance of \"ashek\" or pride. But Rhaissa only giggles for she is resigned to her fate. Her parents have accepted the proposal and the unspoken tribal rules must be followed. This is the last time that Rhaissa can be a girl and have a shepherd's freedom to follow the sheep.The marriage ritual demands that Rhaissa spend the week before her marriage in a wedding tent, where she cannot speak to anyone or leave its confines. It is hard for this beautiful, energetic girl to be so confined but she submits with good grace. Her friends rubs potions into her skin and brush her hair as they prepare her for the big event.Outside the tent the wedding celebration begins in earnest as villages arrive on camels loaded with gifts, Some of her other girlfriends are rebelling against these tribal ways and want to choose their own mates. Rhaissa however remains a dutiful Tuareg, and is willing to first meet her husband on the wedding night. This warm, intimate documentary allows the viewer to glimpse a tradition that may soon be just a memory.
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The Tuareg
This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their camps. In 1962 the Algerian government banned the system of slavery and contract labour which had helped to keep the Tuareg camps supplied with grain. Now, instead of undertaking 500 mile long trading journeys to Niger, Tuareg buy grain in Tamanrasset with money obtained form selling cheap leather goods to the burgeoning tourist trade. The commentary, by Jeremy Keenan, also introduces aspects of the Tuareg kinship system, and material about the social life of the group. The second part of the film concentrates on the devastating effects of the recent drought on this way of life. The pasture is now so poor that camps have to move more frequently, and so traditional patterns of life are being abandoned in favour of a sedentary existence as cultivators alongside the Tuareg's former slaves.
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Metamorphosis in the Culture Market of Niger
The banner of authenticity is falling in the contemporary market for non-Western culture. Taking Tuareg artisanry in Niger as a case study, I show that the neocolonial Western habit of collecting \"exotic\" art objects is giving way to a more collaborative proclivity toward Western objects produced in \"traditional\" Tuareg style. While Tuareg artisans - adjusting to social and cultural upheavals attending the urbanization of their practice and the recent Tuareg separatist rebellion - are producing such hybrid \"modern\" objects, some Tuareg nobles, impoverished by those same changes, have begun painting representational images of a more \"authentic\" Tuareg culture. The nature of the competition between Tuareg artisans and nobles, as well as the complex cross-identification between Tuaregs and their Western expatriate customers, illuminate a general perplexity about modernity in the contemporary Third World and indicate a transformation in the terms of its encounter with the West.
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Jewelry, Fashion, and Identity: The Tuareg Example
Loughran examines the authenticity and modernity of Tuareg jewelry. The Tuareg, a seminomadic pastoralist people of North Berber, consider jewelry as a necessary part of everyday dress for it communicates and identifies social status. Today, Tuareg jewelry forms are a source of inspiration in the West and are reinterpreted by African fashion designers and jewelers, where they have appeared in the fashion arena and in the media as markers of exotica.
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Accounting for Belief: Causation, Misfortune and Evil in Tuareg Systems of Thought
This article contributes to discourse on the problem of evil in anthropological theory through an examination based on fieldwork among the Kel Ewey Tuareg of Niger, of Tuareg attitudes towards, and theories of, misfortune, specifically illness, physical defect, and anomaly as represented in verbal art tales and selected case studies. Its purpose is to reassess two major assumptions prevalent in previous anthropological approaches to religion: namely, that 1) there is no concept of coincidence or accident in non-Western societies; and 2) there is a split between Western 'internalist' and non-Western 'external' theories of causation of misfortune. By examining selected tales and case histories as 'texts' of illness and misfortune against the ethnographic backdrop of Tuareg social organisation, I focus upon seemingly contradictory responses to misfortune in relation to concepts of evil.
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Zarraf, a Tuareg Women's Wedding Dance
\"Zarraf\" is a special dance performed by a group of young women at evening wedding festivals among the Kel Ewey Tuareg that is brief, spontaneous and unaccompanied by any instruments. The dance is described, and the aesthetics of performance are related to the conception and exercise of power.
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