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Jewellery of a Berber woman in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris. Jewellery of the Berber cultures (Tamazight language: iqchochne imagine, ⵉⵇⵇⵛⵓⵛⵏ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ) is a historical style of traditional jewellery that was worn by women mainly in rural areas of the Maghreb region in North Africa and inhabited by Indigenous Berber people (in the Berber language Tamazight ...
His wife, Henriette Camps-Fabrer (1928-2015) was a French cultural anthropologist and wrote several books about the jewellery of the Berbers in Algeria and the Maghreb between the 1970s and 1990. [4] Camps died in 2002 in Aix-en-Provence; on his death, the Algerian Minister of Culture expressed his condolences to the University. [5]
A Shilha musician wearing two large triangular brooches in the Souss region of Morocco at the beginning of the 20th century.. An Amazigh fibula (Tarifit: ⵜⵉⵙⵖⵏⵙⵜ, romanized: Tisɣnst, Tachelhit: ⵜⴰⵥⵕⵥⵉⵜ, romanized: Taẓṛẓit, Moroccan Arabic: تزرزيت, romanized: taẓṛẓit) is a traditional fibula or brooch with practical and symbolic importance in ...
The Agadez Cross (also Agadès Cross, Cross of Niger, French: Croix d’Agadez) is the most popular category of Saharan Berber jewelry made especially by the Tuareg people of Niger. Only a few of these pieces of jewelry exactly resemble a cross.
Berber jewellery. culture of Morocco. culture of Algeria. ... 1906. media type. image/jpeg. File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that ...
As in other rural Berber traditions, jewellery made of silver, coloured glass or iron is a special artform of the Tuareg people. [ 109 ] [ 110 ] While in other Berber cultures in the Maghreb jewelry is mainly worn by women, Tuareg men also wear necklaces, amulets and rings.
In his seminal 1988 book “The Battle for Christmas,” Nissenbaum charts the history of his character and challenged his oft-repeated origins as a natural import of the Netherlands’ St ...
Among other cultural and artistic traditions, jewellery of the Berber cultures worn by Berber women and made of silver, beads and other applications was a common trait of Berber identities in large areas of the Maghreb up to the second half of the 20th century. [59]