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Skullcaps and turbans: domestic authority and public leadership among the Idaw Tanan of the western High Atlas, Morocco
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Hatt, Doyle Gordon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation attempts to discover '…what the structural features might be which serve as checks on the growth and routinization of political power in one particular Berber society, the Idaw Tanan of the Western High Atlas' (p. x). The document is divided into three parts. Part I is an ethnograpahic description of Idaw Tanan economy, subsistence, and social structure. Part II describes the relationship between the landowning tribesmen and the corporation of hereditary saints (marabouts) which defines the Idaw Tanan confederation. Part III analyzes a variety of social relationships and it is concluded that in the Tanani social system, legitimate authority is derived from shared rights in patrimony (AYDA) through the dependency status of owners upon individual holding rights in MILK (property).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Family relationships
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Tribe and nation
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Prophets and ascetics
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1971 (p. ix)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable, 1580-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Idaw Tanan Confederation, primarily the village of Imuzzar, also the villages of Isk, Tugru, Timulay. 'I ultimately visited all the corners of the confederation [i.e., Idaw Tanan] and collected some data in the great majority of village congregations" (p.4), Morocco
- NotesAdditional notes
- Doyle Gordon Hatt
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
- Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts international -- 35/05A, p. 2447. UM AAC7424628
- Bibliography: p. 499-511
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Berbers (Morocco)