Ethnographical texts in Moroccan Berber (dialect of the Anti-Atlas)
By: collected and transcribed by Aki'o Nakano ; translated by John Cooper, with the assistance of Ismail Ilsouk
Contributors: Cooper, John, 1948- translator, writer of foreword, writer of added commentary, researcher, photographer; Ilsouk, Ismail, translator; Afouche, Lahsan, 1948?- narrator, interviewee
Series: Berber studies -- volume 50; Berber studies -- v. 50.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9783896459503
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Berbers; Social life and customs; Tashelhit language; Translations into English; Berber languages; Dialects
Other titles: Ethnographical texts in Moroccan Berber :
Notes: "These texts were collected from a sole person, Mr. Lahsan Afouche ..., 24 years old in 1972, of the Tassrirt tribe, which belongs to the bureau of Tafraout, arrondicement of Tafraout, prefecture of Tiznit."--Page xxv.

Includes foreword, commentary, and additional color photographs provided by the translator.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains the original 1994 publication in 3 volumes, in Tashelhit (Berber).

Includes index.

English, translated from Tashelhit (Berber dialect).
Table of contents: title: The translator's foreword and acknowledgements --; title: Preface Nakano 1994 --; title: Food --; title: Clothes --; title: The house --; title: Tools and vessels --; title: Human life --; title: Inheritance --; title: Market --; title: Communal meals and memorial celebration --; title: Ishelhiyn life in the Gharb --; title: Children --; title: Religion --; title: Our locality --; title: Work in the fields --; title: Work in the garden and the outlying areas --; title: Animals of the homestead --; title: Bee-keeping and hunting --; title: Animals which are harmful to humans --; title: People's work --; title: People with specific status --; title: Ishelhiyn life in former times --; title: The history of our locality in our own words --; title: Customary wedding songs --; title: Poetry and song --; title: Appendix--Food --; title: Photographs by Nakano --; title: Photographs by Cooper.