Appunti sull'etnografia della comunicazione e della scrittura presso i Tuareg dell'Air (NIGER)

Abstract

In spite of the substantial bulk of published literature on Tuareg language and lore as a whole, little enough is available on the ethnography of communication among the Tuareg of the Air, Niger, and there is still less evidence for the ethnography of writing. The present paper aims at giving, without any pretension of exhaustiveness, a general framework for the relevant topics (the taxonomy of speech, address forms, greetings, insults and other genres etc.), to be completed and refined as soon as more evidence will be available.