Qurara region between stability and transformation, a socioanthropological study of the Timimoun region

Abstract

This paperis a part of a long-termfieldstudy and a phase of investigation that have not
yetended, aims to detect the heritage of Gourara district thatisconsidered to be a richheritage
in its dimensions and signs. It isdifficult to know and explore itthrough an individual effort,
but itneeds a generation of social scientists in all its branches and specialities to explore the
remains of thisheritagewhichstarted to fade because of the changes whichoccured and
stillaccuring to affect thisregionyearafteryear.
That’swhyweproposed the two-fold (stability and change) as the regioniswitnessingdeep
transformations in the form and content. And alsoit made us investigating the heritage and
itssigns in the light of successive changes that have taken place in our first visit (2009) and
the second visit (2016), through the followingpresentationevenitdoesn’t have a detailform due
to the conditions that the scientific articles shouldrequire.