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L’imagerie touarègue entre littérature savante et littérature populaire

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb, 2011
To this day, a number of clichés continue to hinder our understanding of the Tuareg society. With different degrees and some adjustments, such clichés usually emerge in travel literature, media, movies, advertising, and sometimes in academic publications.
Paul Pandolfi
doaj   +1 more source

Tin Hinan tomb revisited: New sources relating to the Byron Khun de Prorok’s excavation in Abalessa (Ahaggar, Algeria) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Desde el descubrimiento en 1925 de la tumba de un personaje de alto rango en el Sáhara argelino surgieron múltiples interrogantes acerca de su cronología, la funcionalidad de la construcción o el propio sexo del cuerpo allí enterrado.
García Sánchez, Jorge
core   +2 more sources

Local Landscapes and Constructions of World Space: Medieval  Inscriptions, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Course of the Niger

open access: yesAfriques, 2011
In the West African Sahel, Islam induced processes of cognitive change as spaces and history were given new meaning over time. In the expanding Muslim universe, they were reconstructed with reference to the core regions of the Islamic world and the ...
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
doaj   +1 more source

Características arquitectónicas de las construcciones textiles

open access: yesInformes de la Construccion, 1991
Las construcciones textiles no han sido tratadas habitualmente como Arquitectura por los manuales de historia o la crítica especializada. La mayor parte de la literatura disponible trata de aspectos técnicos tales como el cálculo o los detalles ...
Josep I. de Llorens i Duran   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

İbrahim el-Kûnî’nin Romanlarında Tannis ve Atlantis Efsanesi

open access: yesBozok Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Bu makale, Libya asıllı ünlü Arap yazar İbrahim el-Kûnî’nin romanlarında işlediği, Tuareg kültüründe merkezi bir yeri olan Tannis ve Atlantis efsanesini incelemektedir.
Metin Parıldı, Mücahit Tanrıbuyurdu
doaj   +1 more source

Un regard « arabe » sur les femmes touarègues : Le « Voyage à R’at » d’Ismaël Bouderba

open access: yesViatica
Explorer of Ghat, in present-day Libya, in 1858, Ismaël Bouderba (1823-1878), son of a mother from Marseille and a father from Algiers, published the account of his journey in the Revue algérienne et coloniale, under the title “Journey to R’at” (1859 ...
Adrien Bodiot
doaj   +1 more source

Goyemide on slavery: the liberating power of the word [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article looks at Etienne Goyemide's novel, Le Dernier survivant de la caravane, a mythical foundation story set in the last years of the 19th century which records an episode of the northern slave trade in Banda land, RCA, and throws some light on ...
Ugochukwu, F.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Gathering: a survival occupation in arid zones in Mali [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Dans les régions sahariennes et sahéliennes, les récentes sécheresses ont creusé davantage le déficit chronique en céréales, aliments de base indispensables à la survie des populations.
Diarra, A.
core  

Near‐Synchronous Cambrian Evolution of the Transbrasiliano‐Kandi‐4°50′ Shear Zone in South America and Africa

open access: yesTerra Nova, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Transbrasiliano‐Kandi‐4°50′ (TK4) shear zone in western Gondwana crosscuts South America and NW Africa for at least 6000 km. Despite its impressive size, the timing of the main episode of dextral ductile shearing is uncertain. We present detailed in situ multi‐mineral geochronology of mylonites from both Brazil and Algeria supporting that ...
F. A. Caxito   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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