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The Shluh belong to the Masmuda branch of sedentary Berbers inhabiting the Grand-Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains and the Sous River Valley in southern Morocco. They are primarily agricultural, utilizing plow cultivation, irrigation, and the terracing of fields. Animal husbandry is second in importance. Kin groups of 10 to 50 families are headed by the eldest male member and form clan-barrios occupying either a small hamlet or a specific quarter in a larger village. A larger social unit called a MUDA is the basic land-owning and political unit and is governed by a democratic assembly.

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Social structures of the High Atlas

Note on the collective storehouses of the western High Atlas (tribes of the Ida ou Mahmoud and the Seksaoua)

Skullcaps and turbans

The structure of traditional Moroccan rural society

Ethnographic bibliography of the Shluh

The Berbers and the Makhzen in the south of Morocco

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Beierle, John	Culture summary	1995
Berque, Jacques	Social structures of the High Atlas	1955
Dupas, Pierre	Note on the collective storehouses of the western High Atlas (tribes of the Ida ou Mahmoud and the Seksaoua)	1929
Hatt, Doyle Gordon	Skullcaps and turbans	1993
Hoffman, Bernard G.	The structure of traditional Moroccan rural society	1967
Human Relations Area Files	Ethnographic bibliography of the Shluh	1993
Montagne, Robert	The Berbers and the Makhzen in the south of Morocco	1930

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