November 06, 2007
Culture that Capitalism Can't Crush
...many people on Earth have actually retained their cultural ways in spite of the lure (or sometimes the force) of Western culture. There are still people across the globe who hunt and gather, herd animals or tend small garden plots as they always have.
...managed to incorporate some parts of Western culture while holding on to their dearest traditions. Tuareg culture is one of these...
press release | Live Science
~Every place on the face of the earth is reachable, exploitable manageable. Every nation and people are also. (The world's a theme-park man!)
A car company named a class of small trucks for suburbanites, "Tuareg".
Tuareg art and objects on display...include silver bracelets made in Niger in 1975. Photo from "Art of Being Tuareg" by Tom Seligman info.
somewhat related Wadi Rock Art
~If I happened to join these people on caravan would they watch as I did stupid things (dehydrate myself; fall off camels, etc ) and die then indifferently use my flesh to feed their dogs and turn my skin into leather for saddles and braces?
Posted by Stubbornson at November 6, 2007 02:21 AM