Ethnie in Burkina Faso - Tuareg, Mossi, Fulbe, Hausa, Bissa, Kassena, Zarma, Ewe, Mandinka, Bwaba, Songhai, Sanan, Soninke, Lobi, Dagaare (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Tuareg, Mossi, Fulbe, Hausa, Bissa, Kassena, Zarma, Ewe, Mandinka, Bwaba, Songhai, Sanan, Soninke, Lobi, Dagaare, Frafra, Phuo, Jula, Gourmantch, Senufo, Bobo, Siamou. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Tuareg (also Twareg or Touareg, Amazigh: Imuhagh/Itargiyen, besides regional ethnyms) are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people. They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa. They call themselves variously Kel Tamasheq or Kel Tamajaq ("Speakers of Tamasheq"), Imuhagh, Imazaghan or Imashaghen ("the Free people"), or Kel Tagelmust, i.e., "People of the Veil". The name Tuareg was applied to them by early explorers and historians (since Leo Africanus). The origin and meaning of the name Twareg has long been debated with various etymologies advanced, although it would appear that Twrg is derived from the "broken plural" of Trgi, a name whose former meaning was "inhabitant of Targa" (the Tuareg name of the Libyan region commonly known as Fezzan. Targa in Berber means "(drainage) channel", see Alojali et al. 2003: 656, s.v. "Targa"). The Tuareg today are found mostly in North Africa and West Africa. Some historians claim they progressively moved south over the last 2000 years. They were once nomads throughout the Sahara. They have a little-used but ancient script known as the Tifinagh. Tuareg in the 1907 Colonial ExhibitionThe Tuareg are probably descended from ancient Saharan peoples described by Herodotus. He described the ancient Libyan people of the kingdom of the Garamantes, of which archaeological evidence is found in the ruins of Germa. Later (c.500 AD), the Tuareg expanded southward into the Sahel under their legendary queen Tin Hinan from the Tafilalt region. Tin Hinan is credited in Tuareg lore with uniting the ancestral tribes and founding the unique culture that continues to our time. At Abalessa, a grave traditionally held to be hers has been scientifically studied, and wa...http://booksllc.net/?l=de