by Julio Caro Baroja · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433470270
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«Estudios saharianos» is the ethnographic study by Julio Caro Baroja, published by Ediciones Júcar in paperback (501 pages, in Spanish).
Julio Caro Baroja gathers in this book his ethnographic fieldwork in the Spanish Sahara (1952-1953), between Saguia el Hamra and Río de Oro: tribes, lineages, nomadic economy and customary law, with oral tradition as a historical source. It includes the biography of Cheij Ma el Ainin and the epic of the blue sultans and Smara.
Work originally published in 1955 by the Instituto de Estudios Africanos; this 1990 edition belongs to the Júcar Universidad collection and includes bibliographic references and indexes.
Reference work for the study of the traditional culture of Western Sahara and North African ethnography.
Julio Caro Baroja was a Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist. He was known for his special interest in Basque culture, Basque history and Basque society. Of Basque ancestry, he was the nephew of the renowned writer Pio Baroja and his brother, painter, writer and engraver Ricardo Baroja. He is buried in the family plot of the cemetery of Bera, Navarre, near their home, Itzea.
