Resumen de La vivienda tradicional entre los nómadas del Sáhara y el Sabel centrales, y la pervivencia de la vida nómada en la actualidad
A nomadic dwelling must be easily transponed, following the nomade's displacements, in the search of pasturages.
Dijferent tent types represent different solutions to theproblem.
In the Atlas Mountains, north ofthe Sahara, the nomads use tensil wooden tents with a two slope shape. These tents also occur along the Atlantic Sahara, hut they differfrom theformer in their peaked, conical, silouette. The shape dijferences are due to the different arrangement ofthe poles and to length dijferences of the ridgepiece supporting the velum. Another group are the armatnre tents, which may be skin or mat roofed.
Skin tents are used by the western tuaregs and mat tents by tuaregs of the eastern part of the Niger (dome roofed shape) and the tubus, in Tchad (rectangular hangar-like shape). Another kind of nomadic dwelling, not properly a tent, is the wodaabe "suudu", which is simply a circle of branches limiting a territory. Social and economic changes, political troubles, andperiodical droughts have hrought many nómades to the cities or to exhile. However, nómades are still found in many regions, keeping its traditional dwelling.
