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David Montgomery Hart

ديفيد مونتغمري هارت

American anthropologist, principal ethnographer of the Aït Atta (fieldwork in 1961-1962, 1965 and 1975).

Born
18 May 1927, Philadelphia Confirmed by a verified source
Died
22 May 2001, Garrucha (Spain) Confirmed by a verified source
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David M. Hart · D. M. Hart

Biography

Author of Dadda 'Atta and his Forty Grandsons (1981) and The Ait 'Atta of Southern Morocco (1984), as well as seminal articles in the Revue de l'Occident musulman. His correspondence (over 10,000 pages) was entrusted to the Moroccan National Archives according to Wikipedia. Peyron (1982) criticises his overemphasis on segmentary theory.

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Sources — 2 sources cited · 2 independent documentary line(s)

  1. Wikipedia (English) — « David Montgomery Hart »Full text consulted · Encyclopedic synthesis
  2. Peyron, 1982Full text consulted · Academic research

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  1. September 1961Confirmed by a verified source

    Hart photographs the qânûn of Igharm Amazdar

    In September 1961, with the agreement of the qaid of Ikniouen, Hart had a notebook of customary rules of the Aït 'Aisa of Igharm Amazdar photographed, written in Arabic with many archaic Amazigh terms, probably a 1935-1940 copy of an older document.

    ⌖ Igharm Amazdar⌖ Ikniouen

    Sources — 1 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)

    1. Hart, 1966 — p. 92, 98Excerpts consulted · Academic research
  2. 1981Confirmed by a verified source

    Publication of Dadda 'Atta and his Forty Grandsons

    Hart brought together in one volume (260 pp., 20 photographs, 6 maps) his work on Aït Atta socio-political organisation, based on fieldwork in 1961-1962, 1965 and 1975.

    Sources — 2 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)

    1. Peyron, 1982 — p. 149Full text consulted · Academic research
    2. Hart, 1981Bibliographic record only · Academic research