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Saharan Ethnography
Quiz 2 Linguistics and Tribes
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
10/10/2007

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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: Definition
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.
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