
Culture
Culture and memory
Sung poetry, timnaḍin, today's music, architecture, dress and language: what the Aït Atta hand down, and how.
Nomad camp in the mountains (1955) — Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam), CC BY-SA 3.0
- Timnaḍin12Short poems sung by the women and men of the Saghro, with translations.
- Language and glossary88The words of the Aït Atta, what they mean and where they come from.
- Memory & HeritageCommemorations, places and monuments that keep the memory of the Bougafer.
Topics
Igherman: fortified villages and granariesRammed earth and stone, several storeys, guarded stores: the architecture of permanent homes.Read
Dress, jewellery and languageWhite turban and beard for men, indigo veils and silver for women, a variety of Tamazight.Read - Telling the conquest: poetry under the bombsAmazigh poems from the Central Atlas, collected after the conquest, name the aeroplane, the cannon and the disaster.Read