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Author Keenan, Jeremy

Title Lesser Gods of the Sahara : Social Change and Indigenous Rights
Published London : Frank Cass, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Contents 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Tuaregs -- History
Tuaregs -- Ethnic identity
Tuaregs -- Social life and customs.
Social change -- Algeria
Cultural property -- Protection -- Algeria
Colonization
Cultural property -- Protection
Politics and government
Race relations
Social change
Tuaregs
Tuaregs -- Ethnic identity
Tuaregs -- Social life and customs
Algeria -- Colonization
Algeria -- Race relations
Algeria -- Politics and government.
Algeria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203327623
0203327624