Growing Up Sexually

KABYLES (Algeria)

Index → Middle East → Supra-Saharan Africa → Algeria®Kabyles

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Also: Arabs, Basseri, Bedouin (Arabia, Libya), Fellahin, Karakalpak, Kazach, Kurds, Nubians, Riffians, Teda, Turks

Among the Kabyles, “[a] father may marry his daughter before she has reached puberty”[1].

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

[1] Hanoteau, A. & Letourneaux, A. (1893) La Kabylie et les Coutumes Kabyles. Paris. Vol. ii, p149; Parsons, E. C. (1906) The Family. New York & London: Putman, p40