The social structure of the Old Ouargla Palace After the establishment of Algéria national state - Anthropological approach -

Abstract

The Ouargla Palace is one of the desert regions with a social structure; which throughout the ages has witnessed transformations of the kinship and environmental patterns as well as cultural, political, economic and religious patterns. Among the factors that helped the latter changes are the transformations of the social structure of the place, the discovery of oil, migrations and the commercial one that convoyed all in a harsh desert environment. These transformations have increased and accelerated their frequencies; since independence to the present day, as the place became a mere neighborhood within a municipality of The City of Ouargla, the capital of the state of the same name; meaning that there was a major demographic explosion due to the economic and environmental reasons which had a significant impact on the entire area. In this article, we are trying; through a field study, to clarify the manifestations of that influence and those transformations over more than five decades from the establishment of the national state.