Source: Northeast African Studies
Simon Imbert-Vier, Northeast African Studies, Vol.13, No.2, 2013, pp. 123-149.
This article analyzes the ethnic denominations around the Gulf of Tadjour
Source: Northeast African Studies
Simon Imbert-Vier, Northeast African Studies, Vol.13, No.2, 2013, pp. 123-149.
This article analyzes the ethnic denominations around the Gulf of Tadjoura. By using travel narratives from the nineteenth century and colonial archives from the twentieth, it provides a history of these denominations, their construction and evolution, and the representations they carry. In the nineteenth century, denominations proposed by African informers were used by European travelers to describe the political and social situation in the area as they understood it. Later, the colonial administration wanted to identify groups and individuals in order to manage the inhabitants and secure its domination over the 