Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Glossary; Introduction: Indigenous Rights and a Future Politic amongst Algeria's Tuareg after Forty Years of Independence; 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); Ethnicity, Regionalism and Political Stability in Algeria's Grand Sud; Dressing for the Occasion: Changes in the Symbolic Meanings of the Tuareg Veil
The End of the Matriline? The Changing Roles of Women and Descent amongst the Algerian TuaregThe Last Nomads: Nomadism amongst the Tuareg of Ahaggar (Algerian Sahara); The Lesser Gods of the Sahara; Contested Terrain: Tourism, Environment and Security in Algeria's Extreme South; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A thoroughly studied series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - in the 40 years since the country's independence in 1962