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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.

Abstract

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).

HRAF PubDate

1995

Region

Africa

Sub Region

Northern Africa

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Creator Type

Ethnologist

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

John Beierle

Field Date

1969-1971 (p. ix)

Coverage Date

variable, 1580-1971

Coverage Place

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

Notes

Doyle Gordon Hatt

Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts international -- 35/05A, p. 2447. UM AAC7424628

Bibliography: p. 499-511

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California, Los Angeles, 1974

LCSH

Berbers (Morocco)