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SAGHRO

Guided tours · 7 steps

Women and memory

The women and families of the Saghro, between written sources and oral memory.

Ahidous from south-eastern Morocco at the Marrakesh national folklore festival (c. 1970) — Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam), CC BY-SA 3.0

  1. Step 1 · Topic

    Families, marriages and names

    An agnatic kinship system, names that state filiation, weddings celebrated over several days.

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    Dress, jewellery and language

    White turban and beard for men, indigo veils and silver for women, a variety of Tamazight.

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    Defending the Saghro: fighters, women and families

    What the sources really allow us to say about the defenders of 1933 (their words, their conditions, their endurance) and what they leave unsaid.

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  4. Step 4 · Chapter

    The life of fighters and civilians

    1 – 24 March 1933 — Twenty-five days of siege

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  5. Step 5 · Person

    Adjou Moh

    A woman of the Saghro whom local memory makes a figure of the Bougafer resistance (1933).

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    Telling the conquest: poetry under the bombs

    Amazigh poems from the Central Atlas, collected after the conquest, name the aeroplane, the cannon and the disaster.

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    Two memories of Bougafer

    In France, the cult of Bournazel; in Morocco, a battle that became an episode of the national struggle, and witnesses whose words are only beginning to be collected.

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