Aït Atta

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A man and a woman from the Ait Atta tribe.

The Ait Atta (

Tamazight language).[3]

The Ait Atta originated as a political entity in the

Touat (in modern-day Algeria). They fiercely resisted the French entry into Morocco until 1933 and were the last of Morocco
to fall.

At each tribal level, the head was traditionally elected according to the principles of rotation and complementarity: each lineage took turns to occupy the position, but when it was a particular lineage's turn to hold the office, only members of other lineages could choose the candidate. In ordinary circumstances, power traditionally rested mainly with local councils of family heads, the ajmuɛ, who decided cases according to customary law, izerf.[4] In the oases they conquered, the Ait Atta originally dominated a stratified society, where the haratin who worked the land were often forbidden from owning it, and needed a protection agreement with an Ait Atta patron; this stratification has considerably receded since Moroccan independence with the establishment of legal equality.

Subdivision

Source:[5]

Ait Unbi

Ait Yaza

Ait Ulal

Ait Wahlim

Ait Isful

References

  1. ^ David Hart, The Ait Atta of Southern Morocco, p. 14
  2. ISSN 1015-7344
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  3. ISBN 9780810854529
  4. ISBN 9780804788519
  5. ^ Muhamed Ikiss (August 2020). "156167417-The-Ait-Atta-of-Southern-Morocco-Daily-Life-and-Recent-History-David-Hart (1)" – via ResearchGate.
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