To inhabit the twelve iamawen of Taguelzi: fortified dwellings as alive ruins in the Gourara (Algerian Sahara)
[EN] In the southwest of the Algerian Sahara, Taguelzi is one of the fortified settlement oases forming the network of the Gourara defensive structures situated on the southern edge of the Ouled Aïssa Hmada. It is a large and long flat limestone area, which borders, from north to south, the west sid...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/148310 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/148310 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Fortifications Mediterranean Modern age Built Heritage Fortified habitat Alive Ruins iamawen |
| Sumario: | [EN] In the southwest of the Algerian Sahara, Taguelzi is one of the fortified settlement oases forming the network of the Gourara defensive structures situated on the southern edge of the Ouled Aïssa Hmada. It is a large and long flat limestone area, which borders, from north to south, the west side of the Timimoun sebkha. Despite its position on the peripher of Charouine, one of the Gourara sub-region main human settlement, Taguelzi is exactl situated at the crossroads of ancient caravan routes linking sub-Saharan Africa to the Atlantic shores and the Mediterranean world through both the Messaoura wadi and the shortcut to Figuig in Morocco, across the Great Western Erg. Taguelzi strategic position, on the southern cornice of the Ouled Aïssa hamada facing the north of Moula Mohemmed Erg, an arm of the Great Western Erg, allows to reach the Aougrout, the main sub region of the Gourara, through the Deldoul sub region in few hours, and eventuall from there to get to the Gourara main cities. B using a space anthropological approach based on spatialit vocabular, we have tried to understand this Saharan settlement formed b twelve distinct defensive inhabited structures and wh some of them are considered as “dead ruins” and others as still “alive ruins”. Taguelzi twelve fortified inhabited structures reported through “the spatialit living word” reveals the living space organization complexit at the territor scale and ma explain the morphogenesis of those defensive structures which gave birth to troglodte habitat, to stone defensive towers and double walled fortifications with gardens, wells, water sstem irrigation and wide-open cemeteries. Toda, despite unsuccessful state rehabilitation projects and the fortifications advanced state of ruins after the 2008 devastating floods, the inhabitants still clearl identif and refer to them as the twelve “i��amawen of Taguelzi |
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