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Nederlands: fotoNederlands: Portret van groep vrouwen
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Nederlands: foto
Nederlands: Portret van groep vrouwen
Description
Nederlands: Vrouwen van de Ouled Naïl bevolkingsgroep in een dorp in Algerije, deze vrouwen zijn waarschijnlijk prostituées.

This mysterious Arabic-speaking yet ethnically distinct tribe, believed to have migrated from Morocco hundreds of years before the French conquest, inhabited the Ouled Nail mountains and by tribal custom sent their young women to the oases to acquire their dowries as dancers at public festivals and in cafés, choosing from among their admirers generous patrons. When their dowries were adequate they returned to their mountain villages and would marry within the tribe.

Even while they practiced their profession in the oases, they fasted Ramadan and patronized the shrines of Muslim awliya (holy men or women) like any other pre-colonial Algerian Muslims, to the bemusement of the French. They were an ancient geisha caste of North Africa in a pre-modern context that could tolerate within the social rituals of tribal sanctity the profane as well as the sacred.

In time the centralizing, rational, bureaucratic modern colonial state would reduce many of the Ouled Nail to prostitutes and register them as such. The destruction of the traditional economy and subsequent impoverishment of that part of the countryside that wasn't grabbed up by the French settlers following the conquest would drive some of the Ouled Nail into the brothels of Algiers and Tunis.
Date between 1870 and 1890
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 20,2 x 26,8cm (7 15/16 x 10 9/16in.)
Accession number
60047825
Notes
Nederlands:
Materiaal - hoofd: fotopapier
Techniek: Fotografische procédés
Voorstelling Activiteit / Functie: clothing, clothing, jewellery, kleding, kleding, sieraden, sieraden
Voorstelling Cultuur: Arabisch-sprekende volken van Noord-Afrika, Moren
Voorstelling Geografie: Algeria, Algerije
Voorstelling/iconografie: Cultuur, samenleving, portret, Straatgezicht, Vrouw
Source/Photographer Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

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