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This chapter focuses upon the ethnography of the Kel Ajjer Tuareg, the larger social entity that includes the Kel Tadrart Tuareg, and of the Kel Hoggar, the other ‘northern’ Tuareg group. Information directly collected by myself in the Tadrart Acacus and in the surrounding areas will be herein used along with the ethnohistorical sources from the colonial period, with the aim of tracing back the development of the Kel Tadrart status in the course of the last one hundred years.
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Biagetti, S. (2014). The Kel Tadrart Tuareg: Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Background. In: Ethnoarchaeology of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08530-2_3
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