Warriors, Tributaries, Blood Money and Political Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Mauritania

The Journal of African History

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 419-441

  Taylor, Raymond M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWLAD AL-SIYYID; BLOOD MONEY; FRENCH ROLE; GUM TRADE; HISTORICAL STUDIES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLITICAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CRISIS;

MAURITANIA, BRAKNA;

EID: 0029529554     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: 14695138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700034484     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. See for example ANS 9G-4: 155—156 (Letter from Sidi A'li to Governor, Jan. 1865).
2. The Jayjiba, Azwaya group with close relations to the Awlad al-Siyyid whose members included distinguished scholars and religious shaykhs, suffered heavy losses of livestock in the late 1840s at the hands of the Awlad Ahmad as well as Trarza groups such as the Awlad Daman and Awlad Ahmad min Daman. Over the course of a single season, the Jayjiba and Tabiyyat lost more than 1,000 cattle and several thousand sheep, as well as tents, horses, camp supplies, guns and slaves (CAT: T24, 305; HOCS: 1364–65).