Tuareg culture. The Tuareg are a Moslem nomadic pastoral people who live in Northern Africa in tribal and subtribal groups of 50 to several hundred people. As Murphy (1964) noted, the Tuareg wore a sleeveless underrobe and a flowing outer garment that reached from the shoulder to the ankle, along with a turban and veil. Males dressed so that only their eyes were visible, since the veil and headdress covered the forehead and the area from the bridge of the nose over the rest of the face. The veil was worn continuously once a male reached adulthood, even when he ate and slept. As Murphy indicated, the veil was a literal boundary regulation mechanism and was adjusted and readjusted, however slightly, to reflect openness or closedness to others. Thus, the Tuareg veil serves as an important behavioral mechanism used by people in this culture to control interaction with others and reflects well the dynamic and dialectic features of privacy management hypothesized in this article.