Even if it is a bit old, this book should help us keep with the mood set up by the Fez Festival of Amazigh Culture by leading us deep down into the roots of the “Berber” culture…
“Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco” is a series of articles on the Amazigh society, particularly focused on the Rif tribes, their origins, their places of settlement and the issues they are facing nowadays.
This book consists in an anthropological study of the Amazigh culture. It also deals with several tribes' socio-economic and socio-political organization and customary law.
A social anthropologist and historian, Hart was particularly interested in Muslim tribal societies. The author of 11 essays, most of them written after 1985 – he did most of his field work in Morocco from 1953 to 1967 - David M. Hart used some of his works to compare Muslim tribes in various countries such as Morocco and Afghanistan (“Qabila: Tribal Profiles and Tribe-State Relations in Morocco and on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier”).
Hart is also the author of :
Tribalism and Rural Society in the Islamic World
Muslim Tribesmen and the Colonial Encounter in Fiction on Film
Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco (Paperback)
Forged Consensus (Hardcover)
Commonly considered as the oldest ethnic group living in Morocco – the word “Berber” was first attributed to them by the Romans, the Amazigh people converted to Islam and mixed with Arabs following the Muslim conquests.
This did not lead them to loose their language and cultural specificities since the Amazigh language subdivides into several dialects such as Tamazight (Middle Atlas), Tarifit (Rif mountains) or Tashelhit (High Atlas and Anti Atlas).
Title: Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco
Author: David M. Hart
Publisher: Routledge (2000)
Price: About $ 29.95
“Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco” is a series of articles on the Amazigh society, particularly focused on the Rif tribes, their origins, their places of settlement and the issues they are facing nowadays.
This book consists in an anthropological study of the Amazigh culture. It also deals with several tribes' socio-economic and socio-political organization and customary law.
A social anthropologist and historian, Hart was particularly interested in Muslim tribal societies. The author of 11 essays, most of them written after 1985 – he did most of his field work in Morocco from 1953 to 1967 - David M. Hart used some of his works to compare Muslim tribes in various countries such as Morocco and Afghanistan (“Qabila: Tribal Profiles and Tribe-State Relations in Morocco and on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier”).
Hart is also the author of :
Tribalism and Rural Society in the Islamic World
Muslim Tribesmen and the Colonial Encounter in Fiction on Film
Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco (Paperback)
Forged Consensus (Hardcover)
Commonly considered as the oldest ethnic group living in Morocco – the word “Berber” was first attributed to them by the Romans, the Amazigh people converted to Islam and mixed with Arabs following the Muslim conquests.
This did not lead them to loose their language and cultural specificities since the Amazigh language subdivides into several dialects such as Tamazight (Middle Atlas), Tarifit (Rif mountains) or Tashelhit (High Atlas and Anti Atlas).
Title: Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco
Author: David M. Hart
Publisher: Routledge (2000)
Price: About $ 29.95