The continuity of tribal identity references in the nominal system of the Numamsha tribe from the occupation to the mid-twentieth century

Abstract

The important question that leads us to this is: Why did the presence of the Nemamcha tribal structure continue to be present in the founding history of 1954 and appear through Aures-Al Nammamshah, while structures that had their weight in the Ottoman era, such as the Hanancha, are absent in this history? This is a question whose answer is related to the extent of the intensification and impact of French policies on the one hand, and on the other hand directly to the Al Nammamshah tribe’s preservation of the “Bedouin pattern” with its various structures: political (semi-independence and a warlike nature), economic (pastoral pattern), and sociological (tribal structure), which preserved the tribe’s existence, to emphasize the continuity of the tribe’s representation through the continued presence of tribal affiliation, through a symbolic identity capital for the Nemamcha, embodied in a naming structure that constantly reminded us – as a mechanism within a strategy and as a ritual – of the Lemouchi’s affiliation with the tribe, through the dominance of the tribal identity reference in the nominal system and the addressable discourse. This reference served as a basic identifier for naming the individual to the point of oblivion. The group-centered sense of belonging was a constant and uninterrupted presence from the occupation until 1954.