Few words from - North for the trade

idir

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* tanouramt:
credit

* anfugour-infugourn:
a leader at the AFUS level

...The AFUS might have as many as 50 families in it...
...Each AFUS, or perhaps the village itself, would have a leader...
(For the tribe there was the leader known as ANFLOUS)


* tafgurt:
the levying of fines




----About the book----:

North for the Trade: The Life and Times of a Berber Merchant 1972
by John Waterbury ISBN: 0520021347

A personal anthropology of a Berber merchant by a leading US academic.

See John Waterbury for an oral history of one migrant Soussi merchant
North for the Trade: The Life and Times of a Berber Merchant (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1972).
 
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