


The organization of Berber society in any time and any place was always expressed and translated through a collective creativity which gives form and significance to sedentary and nomadic habitats. I owe this perception to Pierre Bourdieu who adopted in his study of a Kabilian Berber village - as focal point - the relation between the house and its ideological and symbolic correlations. It appears that his conclusions also apply to the various Berber communities of Morocco. Whether it concerns the khaimas of the seminomads of the Middle Atlas, a douar in the High Atlas or a ksar in the valley of the Drâa, the close links between habitat, the structure of the human settlement or the ornamentation of the house are always most faithful testimonys of the social organization of the group, of the fluctuations of its living culture and its skilful adaptations to the local constraints. It is these testimonys that we wish to photograph in 7 Berber communities in rural Morocco.