Boubrik, Rahal
Saharan society was, for centuries, a nomadic society. However, a shift from the tent to the house in the city began in the middle of the last century and took shape at the end of the seventies. The colonial and, later, post-colonial states were the main actors in the urban phenomenon and in the recent sedentarization of the Atlantic Sahara, without neglecting the catastrophic climatic situation that had destructured the nomadic pastoral production systems. Beyond an essentialist approach to nomadism, the author deals here with how the nomad inhabited his tent and, subsequently, his house in order to be able to focus on the interaction between special and social organization. The author adopts an anthropological approach to this with a consideration of the long term.
