The Berbers

Author : Katherine E. Hoffman,Susan Gilson Miller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 9780253354808

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Berbers and Others by Katherine E. Hoffman,Susan Gilson Miller Pdf

Berbers and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazigh (Berber) movement has become a focus of widespread political, social, and cultural attention in North Africa, Europe, and the United States. Berber groups have peacefully yet persistently laid claim to ownership over broad areas of creativity in the arts, politics, literature, education, and national memory. The contributors to this volume present some of the best new thinking in the emerging field of Berber studies, offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights. The scope, depth, and multidisciplinary approach will engage specialists on the Maghrib as well as students of ethnicity, social and political change, and cultural innovation.

Author : Ramzi Rouighi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251302

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Inventing the Berbers by Ramzi Rouighi Pdf

Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before the Arabs, no one thought that these groups shared a common ancestry, culture, or language. Certainly, there were groups considered barbarians by the Romans, but "Barbarian," or its cognate, "Berber" was not an ethnonym, nor was it exclusive to North Africa. Yet today, it is common to see studies of the Christianization or Romanization of the Berbers, or of their resistance to foreign conquerors like the Carthaginians, Vandals, or Arabs. Archaeologists and linguists routinely describe proto-Berber groups and languages in even more ancient times, while biologists look for Berber DNA markers that go back thousands of years. Taking the pervasiveness of such anachronisms as a point of departure, Inventing the Berbers examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home. Key both to Rouighi's understanding of the medieval phenomenon of the "berberization" of North Africa and its reverberations in the modern world is the Kitāb al-'ibar of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), the third book of which purports to provide the history of the Berbers and the dynasties that ruled in the Maghrib. As translated into French in 1858, Rouighi argues, the book served to establish a racialized conception of Berber indigenousness for the French colonial powers who erected a fundamental opposition between the two groups thought to constitute the native populations of North Africa, Arabs and Berbers. Inventing the Berbers thus demonstrates the ways in which the nineteenth-century interpretation of a medieval text has not only served as the basis for modern historical scholarship but also has had an effect on colonial and postcolonial policies and communal identities throughout Europe and North Africa.

Author : Michael Brett,Elizabeth Fentress
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631207678

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The Berbers by Michael Brett,Elizabeth Fentress Pdf

The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.

Author : Hsain Ilahiane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442281820

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Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) by Hsain Ilahiane Pdf

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, these dynamics have over time converted to redefine the field of Berber identity and its socio-political representations and symbols, making it an even more important issue in the 21st century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Berbers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Berbers.

Author : Robert Montagne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135159566

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The Berbers by Robert Montagne Pdf

France entered the North African world in 1830. Its overt political role there ended in 1962. The interpenetration of cultures and languages which resulted from the colonial conquest has not ended yet. No doubt a time will come when an intellectual balance sheet of this epoch comes to be drawn up. When this is done, Robert Montagne’s name will head the list of those Frenchmen who have made a study of Berber society. The brilliance of his ideas, the thoroughness and perceptiveness of his documentation, the range of his historical and comparative vision, and (a trait not always found in scholarly writing on North Africa) the simplicity and vigour of his style, all help to make plain that we have here a social thinker and observer of the very first rank, and one who deserves to be far better known outside the French-speaking world than he is at present.

Author : Ramzi Rouighi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296181

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Inventing the Berbers by Ramzi Rouighi Pdf

Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before the Arabs, no one thought that these groups shared a common ancestry, culture, or language. Certainly, there were groups considered barbarians by the Romans, but "Barbarian," or its cognate, "Berber" was not an ethnonym, nor was it exclusive to North Africa. Yet today, it is common to see studies of the Christianization or Romanization of the Berbers, or of their resistance to foreign conquerors like the Carthaginians, Vandals, or Arabs. Archaeologists and linguists routinely describe proto-Berber groups and languages in even more ancient times, while biologists look for Berber DNA markers that go back thousands of years. Taking the pervasiveness of such anachronisms as a point of departure, Inventing the Berbers examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home. Key both to Rouighi's understanding of the medieval phenomenon of the "berberization" of North Africa and its reverberations in the modern world is the Kitāb al-'ibar of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), the third book of which purports to provide the history of the Berbers and the dynasties that ruled in the Maghrib. As translated into French in 1858, Rouighi argues, the book served to establish a racialized conception of Berber indigenousness for the French colonial powers who erected a fundamental opposition between the two groups thought to constitute the native populations of North Africa, Arabs and Berbers. Inventing the Berbers thus demonstrates the ways in which the nineteenth-century interpretation of a medieval text has not only served as the basis for modern historical scholarship but also has had an effect on colonial and postcolonial policies and communal identities throughout Europe and North Africa.

Author : Michael Peyron
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838603731

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The Berbers of Morocco by Michael Peyron Pdf

From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth century. This book provides an in-depth overview of Berber resistance to the French campaigns of 'Pacification', and the subsequent struggle over Berber identity in the independence era. Deeply steeped in Berber history and culture, the author traces the major and minor engagements between French forces and the Berbers in revealing detail, using previously unavailable sources. Relying on a wealth of oral sources and extensive field work, it provides the most complete history to date of one of the most important Berber communities in North Africa.

Author : William Shaler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590902060

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Communication on the language, manners, and customs of the Berbers or Brebers of Africa, in a series of letters to P.S. Duponceau, read before the Amer. phil. soc. and publ. in the new ser. of their transactions by William Shaler Pdf

Author : Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292745056

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The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman Pdf

Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and sociocultural orders in Morocco and Algeria, while serving as an important counterpoint to the oppositionist Islamist current. This is the first book-length study to analyze the rise of the modern ethnocultural Berber/Amazigh movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman begins by tracing North African history from the perspective of its indigenous Berber inhabitants and their interactions with more powerful societies, from Hellenic and Roman times, through a millennium of Islam, to the era of Western colonialism. He then concentrates on the marginalization and eventual reemergence of the Berber question in independent Algeria and Morocco, against a background of the growing crisis of regime legitimacy in each country. His investigation illuminates many issues, including the fashioning of official national narratives and policies aimed at subordinating Berbers in an Arab nationalist and Islamic-centered universe; the emergence of a counter-movement promoting an expansive Berber "imagining" that emphasizes the rights of minority groups and indigenous peoples; and the international aspects of modern Berberism.

Author : Alan Keohane
Publisher : Viking Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Berbers
ISBN : UCSC:32106018264082

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The Berbers of Morocco by Alan Keohane Pdf

A collection of photographs capturing the rich traditions and everyday life of the Berbers. Within the borders of Morocco, and unknown to many of the thousands of tourists who visit the country each year, live the Berbers, whose way of life has hardly changed for centuries. For two years Alan Keohane lived among them. He travelled with nomads, stayed in villages, participated in family life and joined in local celebrations and festivals.

Author : Ernest Gellner,Charles Antoine Micaud
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : UOM:39015002366535

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Arabs and Berbers by Ernest Gellner,Charles Antoine Micaud Pdf

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217844

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Berber Culture on the World Stage by Jane E. Goodman Pdf

Annotation Explores Berber cultural identity and performance in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene.

Author : Anne-Marie Bouttiaux,Anne van Cutsem
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082677587

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African Costumes and Textiles by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux,Anne van Cutsem Pdf

Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection. The extraordinary works presented exemplify the craftsmanship of highly skilled African weavers and provide insight into the lives and culture of various ethnic groups. Whether the materials used are wool, cotton, silk, raffia, or bark, the patterns the weavers produce are predominantly geometric and abstract, but highly stylized figurative motifs are also found. The designs frequently illustrate excerpts from historical or mythical stories. The book presents a breathtaking variety of costumes, textiles, and accessories used for everyday wear and for special celebrations, and explores the different techniques, influences, and meanings behind these colorful works of art. The essays describe the history of the development of these techniques and the richness of the symbolism in this form of cultural heritage. The superb photography showcases the splendor of these intricate and exquisite textiles.

Author : Hsain Ilahiane
Publisher : A to Z Guide Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Berbers
ISBN : 0810868466

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The A to Z of the Berbers (Imazighen) by Hsain Ilahiane Pdf

Berbers are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, these dynamics have over time converted to redefine the field of Berber identity and its socio-political representations and symbols, making it an even more important issue in the new century. Through the use of maps, a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy and politics-past and present-The A to Z of the Berbers (Imazighen) provides necessary information on this under-studied group of people.

Author : William Starbuck Mayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Berbers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN888F

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The Berber, Or, The Mountaineer of the Atlas by William Starbuck Mayo Pdf