Author: Keenan, Jeremy
Title: The Tuareg : People of Ahaggar
Description: New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1977. orig. boards. dustwrapper.. xii,385[16]pp, 24x16cm, Bottom page-edge soiled.. 16pp photoplates, map. Riubbed. Top binding edge heavily dented. Good. ¶ Contents: The Early History of the Tuareg and Origins of the Class Division: The Division of the Kel Ahaggar into Three Drum Groups; Noble- Vassal Relations; The Distribution and Conquest by France; Nomadism and Sedentarism; descent, Class and Marital Strategies; The Symbolic Meaning of the Veil; The Colonial Presence; Resistance to Change and the Preservation of the Status Quo; The Development of the Sahara: Wage Labour and the Seeds of Discontent; Algerian Independence; Drought and Economic Depression in Ahaggar; The Preconditions for Socialism: Agricultural Co- operatives and the "Ruination" of the Nomadic Economy; The " Algerianization" of the Kel Ahaggar; Different Responses of the Kel Ahaggar to Modernization; Problems of Integration. Bibliography: p. 367-371.

Keywords: Algeria, Ahaggar Plateau, Social Life Saharan, Tuaregs Tuareg, Algeria Ethnology, Maghreb Maghrib, North Africa, Ethnohistory Sahara, Ethnic History, Ethnography