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Let us refer, for example, to the maps given in Les Langues du Monde, edited by Meillet and Cohen,2 which are more eloquent than a long historical narrative (see Map 1). In the fifth century Be, before the Roman conquest, the Berber peoples-the Libyans, the 'Getules', and the 'Troglodytes' of whom Herodotus and Hanno write-were in contact throughout northern Africa with 'Nigritia', the country of the 'Ethiopians'. Then, later, when they had become Romanised, or else had undergone the influence of the Carthaginians on the coast, they pushed the peaceful black populations of the oases back towards the southern regions of the Sahara.
DAVID SEDDON xxxviii THB BERBERS NOTES 1 Woolman, Rebels in the RJf: Abd el Krim and the RJf Rebellion. 2 A fuller appreciation of the life and work of Robert Montagne by a number of his friends and colleagues may be found in L'Afrique et l'Asie (No. 32, 1955), a Journal that he had founded and helped to edit, and to which he contributed numerous articles between 1948 and 1953. 3 Foster, Applied Anthropology; Harris, The Rise of Anthropological Theory; Mair, 'The Social Sciences in Africa South of the Sahara: the British Contribution' in Human Organization; Stauder, 'The Function of Functionalism: the adaptation of British social anthropology to British colonialism in Africa' (paper presented at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1971).
48-49. 24 Maurois, Lyautey, p. 54. ) p. 2. 26 For some discussion of distortion in the presentation of Moroccan history, see Lacoste, Ibn Khaldun: naissance de l'histoire passe du tiers mo1ule; also Sahli, Decoloniser I'Histoire: introduction tll'histoire du Maghreb. (Chapter 4). 27 Doutte, 'Une Mission d'Etudes', in Renseignements Coloniaux, 1901, p. 171. , p. 166. , p. 172. g. Lahbabi, Le Gouvernement Marocain ell'Aube du XXe Steele; Waterbury, The Commander of the Faithful, Chapters I and 3.