Abstract
Among the Maure of Mauritania and the Arabic speaking Touat-Gourara of Algeria, numerous corporal techniques are employed to transform a child into an adult in accordance with certain aesthetic and moral criteria. Following this are certain rites of passage, organised around processes of incorporation : Koranic studies for boys and force-feeding for girls. A detailed study of these socialisation practices shows how they are founded upon a representation of the child's body as a site of memory and education.
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