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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: Mind you, traditions of ancestral migration are more prevalent among nomadic groups like the Tuareg among others. And I agree that such migrations are more recent than ancient as per nomadic customs. The Tuareg are divided into many Kel or clans each descended from a matriarch. And as Lioness pointed out there are primary noble clans and secondary client clans descended from the maidservants of the matriarchs as well as tertiary and other lower clans descended from lower status ancestresses. This reflects the matrilineal hierarchy as opposed the patrilineal hierarchies of patriarchal nomadic tribes where noble clans descend from patriarchs and lesser clans from butlers of the patriarchs. You see this in other Saharan nomadic groups such the Teda or those of the Horn such as the Oromo and Somali Another unique about the Tuareg is their Tifinagh script whose literacy is preserved and passed from the women (Look up the topic of Tifinagh in past ES archives). What's interesting is that other Berber tribes have preserved ancient pictographs but mostly in arts and crafs such as pottery and fabrics but the Tuareg are the only ones who have utilized their pictographs in actual script. Also, I noticed that most of the literature I've read on Saharan peoples usually divide the Berber speaking groups into the Tuareg of the central Sahara and the Moors of the Western Sahara though I never understood what the major difference was other than that the Moors have more Arab influence. [/qb][/QUOTE]Thanks for the perspective. These lighter skinned Tuareg nobles remind me of some ancient Arabian tribes in that they're both often assumed to be non African but have all these cultural features (such as queens and matriarchs) that we wouldn't associate with the proposed Eurasian source populations. This is why terms like non-indigenous can be problematic when applied North Africans beyond certain lineages. As Keita often points out, the fact that Berber languages and other features show little evidence of mixture shows that foreigners were assimilated on locals' terms. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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