Exploration Du Sahara: Les Touareg Du Nord


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they never pronounce the name of the dead in order that they may disappear from the presence of the living. They never call their children, as in the case of the Arabs, son of so and so; they give them a name that will live and die with them. There is no exception to this rule except in the families of the marabouts or in the principal families, where the name is intimately bound up with the tribal history. This real or apparent forgetfulness of the dead has its origin in the fear of their return, a general fear which causes the avoidance of anything that might be taken as an evocation.2

2Duveyrier, H.n/an/an/an/an/a, , 431.

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Chicago: Exploration Du Sahara: Les Touareg Du Nord in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed September 22, 2023, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HH2MAJKVGDQWWCN.

MLA: . Exploration Du Sahara: Les Touareg Du Nord, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 22 Sep. 2023. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HH2MAJKVGDQWWCN.

Harvard: , Exploration Du Sahara: Les Touareg Du Nord. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 22 September 2023, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HH2MAJKVGDQWWCN.