My intervention focuses on data collected during a 17-month anthropological field research project (March to May 2018, then March 2022 to May 2023) in the village of Merzouga, located in the Sahara of southeastern Morocco, that mainly lives from tourism. The village’s inhabitants are mostly nomads from the Ait Khebbach tribal group, who settled near Erg Chebbi because of oasis agriculture from the 1950...