Book
Social structures of the High Atlas
Presses Universitaires de France • Paris • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Berque, Jacques, Bigwood, Jane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph on the Shluh concentrates on the Seksawa confederation. The book is divided into four parts. Parts I and II deal with geography and environment. Part III deals with religion and law and interrelationships between them. Part IV consists of interpretations and comparisons. Berque's interest was in the origins and the true nature of Shluh institutions. He used some archival data but his analysis consists mainly in historical reconstruction based on contemporary Shluh institutions and similar institutions in other North African societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- History and culture change
- Tillage
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Tribe and nation
- Community structure
- Districts
- Justice
- Spirits and gods
- Congregations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shluh
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- historical reconstruction
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Seksawa Confederation, Morocco
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jacques Berque
- Translation of: Structures socials du Haut-Atlas. The original French text is not included./Translated from the French for the Human Relations Area Files by Jane Bigwood.
- For information on the amazzal (water administrators) and the imchchurd'a (guardians), see category 624; For further information on oaths when used in informal settlements of disputes, see category 627; when used in formal judicial proceedings, see category 695; For information on the secular activities of the talebs ( t'tolba ) or scribes, see category 212; For information on the non-secular activities of the talebs ( t'tolba ) or scribes, see category 794; For further information on the moqaddem as the president of a village council, see category 623; as the president of a canton council, see category 634; as the head of a community of marabouts, see category 792; and as the caretaker of a mosque, see category 794; For further information on formal judicial proceedings, see category 695; as used in a religious context, see category 782; For further information on oaths when used for informal settlement of disputes, see category 627; as used in a religious context, see category 782; For information on the sherif ( shorfa nobles who are descendants of the Prophet, see category 554; For information on "saints", see category 776; For information on habous endowments of land and other property to religious institutions for the glorification of Allah, see categories 794 and 423; Since the term taqbilt refers to both district and tribe, additional information on the tribal composition of each of these territorial areas may be found in category 634 as well as 619; For further information on the moqaddem as the president of a village council, see category 622; as the president of a canton council, see category 634; as the head of a community of marabouts, see category 792; and as the caretaker of a mosque, see category 794.
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Berbers (Morocco)