The Tuareg mask ( Myth and reality) - Paperback

by Elaid Bouda (Author)

The Tuareg community is characterized by many historical secrets and cultural characteristics, which makes it a fertile research space and an appropriate field to satisfy cognitive curiosity.This research paper deals with one of the important aspects of the immaterial cultural heritage of the Tuareg. It concerns detecting both the legend and reality of the wearing of the mask or cover, much is said about this. One of the legendary sayings in which we are going to follow or relay on according to its origin in order to detect its backgrounds and compare it with the real Tuareg (Emouhaghi) society to find out the reality of the cover which is an important wearing element in the Tuareg heritable custom.