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The Tuareg are agro-pastoralist people living in the northern and western African countries of Niger, Mali, Algeria and Libya. They speak several dialects of Temacheg, a branch of the Berber language family, reinforcing the belief that they all descended from the Berbers who lived in the Fezzan region of Libya. Traditional social organization included clans and clan sections internally divided into broad social classes consisting of nobles, religious practitioners, artisans, tribute paying cultivators, and laborers (former slaves). Relationships among clans were facilitated through loose clan confederations under the leadership of a sultan elected by the chiefs of noble clans. The Tuareg are Muslims, but their religious belief system also includes non-Islamic elements.

Six months among the Ahaggar Tuareg

The living races of the Sahara Desert

The Hoggar Tuareg

Political systems of pastoral Tuareg in Air and Ahaggar

Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg

Culture Summary

Modes of persuasion

Reflections on witchcraft, danger, and modernity among the Tuareg

Disputed boundaries

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Benhazera, Maurice	Six months among the Ahaggar Tuareg	1908
Briggs, Lloyd Cabot	The living races of the Sahara Desert	1958
Lhote, Henri	The Hoggar Tuareg	1944
Nicolaisen, Johannes	Political systems of pastoral Tuareg in Air and Ahaggar	1959
Nicolaisen, Johannes	Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg	1963
Rasmussen, Susan J.	Culture Summary	2010
Rasmussen, Susan J.	Modes of persuasion	1991
Rasmussen, Susan J.	Reflections on witchcraft, danger, and modernity among the Tuareg	2004
Rasmussen, Susan J.	Disputed boundaries	1992
Rasmussen, Susan J.	Tuareg	2004

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