Language, Poetry and Politics in Tuareg Country
Publisher
:
La Découverte
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782707132666
Description
Tuaregs live in the Sahel and the southern Sahara. Until the beginning of this century, these people were spread out in different tribes each forming an independent political group. Despite the national borders of Algeria, Mali, Libya and Niger, which separate them today, they share a common language descended from Berber. In Gens de parole, Dominique Casajus undertakes an ethnological study of a people who inspired a whole mythology in the imagination of French colonists and historians. The author particularly focuses on their oral tradition and language, to which they give great importance. Their favorite uses of language are elegiac and war poetry. Casajus, aware of the subjective aspect of ethnology, offers the most objective analysis and observation possible on Tuaregs.
Author
Dominique Casajus : Dominique Casajus is a research director at the CNRS and professor at L’Ecole polytechnique. He is the author of Peau d’Ane et autres contes touaregs (L’Harmattan, 1985), and La tente de la solitude (Maison des science de l’homme, 1987).
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