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Details Title: Saharan Ethnography Description: Quiz 2 Linguistics and Tribes Total Flash Cards: 22 Created: 10/10/2007 14:03:41	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Shilah Definition Language: Tashelhait Term Kabyles Definition Language: Taqbailit Term Imazighen Definition Language: Tamazight Term Taureg Definition Language: Tamashaq Term Mzab Definition Language: Tumazabt Term Arab nomad: Hasaniyya Definition Mauritania and W. Sahara Term Arab nomad: Awlad 'Ali Definition Egypt Term Arab nomad: Kababish Definition N. Kordoban Term Berber Language group: Masmuuda Definition Tashelhait Term Berber Language group: Sanhaaja (2) Definition Tamazight Taqbailit Term Berber Language group: Zanaata Definition Tamashaq Tumazabt Term Plains peasants: Definition Fertile cericultural plains; land held in latifundias by members of gentry class dwelling in towns and worked by peasants in villages Term Plains Peasants: Unstable Peasant Areas: Areas which historically                                 cycle back and forth between semi-nomadism and sedentary                                  cericulture, depending on the fortunes of the State Term Sedentary montagnards: Definition •           Tribally organized Berberophone villagers with subsistence economies mixing cericulture, arboriculture, apiculture and stock raising: Kabyles Term Transhumant Montagnards: Definition •           Similar to above, except with a greater emphasis on stock raising and with a portion of the year lived in tents at high pastures: Ait Atta on N. side of Dra’ Term Qsurians and Petits nomades: Definition Sedentary inhabitants of oases (often Haratîn) and associated sheep-nomads (Note Qsur - sometimes Ksour – is from Arabic for fort or fortified tower and typical of pre-Sahara and Atlas settlements) Term Grands nomades: Definition Saharan camel nomads and associated sedentary oasis dwellers: e.g Tuareg and (Arab) Beduin: Kababish Term Cericulture Definition grains, roman wheat; egyptian barley, pearl millet sudan BCE1800; oats mediterranean Term Arboriculture Definition Olives, citrus, dates Term Apiculture Definition Bee-keeping Term Animal-Husbandry Definition Goats 6500bp, cattle 6500bp, sheep 4400 bp, horse & donkey 4000bp; 4000bc/400ad carthage. Term Definition