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THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA
(Temporany Translation)
MASAI
The alive tribe of the Masai in the East Africa them, mostly
occupies the Tanzania and the Kenya. Their prevailing activity is
the pastorizia nomadic, but today some groups are become to you
agriculturists. They have a true one and own industry of the latte
ones, on which they fuse the greater part of the alimony. For the
defense of the herds they are capacities to being warlike, armed
with nozzle with long blade and svelta, with straight sword and
shield oval in leather. Their life print on the phenomenon of the
solar cycles that is day and night, and changing of the seasons.
From always they have lead a life from nomads and they live of
breeding, for this the presences of great pastures and giacimenti of
water are fundamental for their survival. For they the Earth is
sacred does not have to be absolutely cultivated some to use in
order to dig pools, the corpses cannot be buried but they come given
in meal to the animals of the savana. E' impossible to meet a
guerriero Masai lacking in perfectly sharpenned nozzle. They have a
great beautiful presence, are much high, deprive of fat person, they
cure their image very. Their clothing seems painted, a picture, the
colors of is fundamental part. Drappi that they wrap the bodies are
of red color and blue, the men wear shuka that is one covered to
chess red, the women, as of any etnia they cure and they decorate
the own image in the minimums details, embellish the own image
slanciata with flat necklaces decorated from rather showy perline
and "important" clasps. A material a lot used for ornaments to it is
the copper with which they compose great spirals for wrists and
ankles. Both seies apply to the heavy lobes ornament that of they
provoke an excessive lengthening. The Masai believes that the God of
the Ngai rain has donated they all the cattle, and therefore anyone
possesses some only can have it stolen to they, this for long years
was reason of contrast between the various tribes.
The women carry hats shaved to you and dresses adorn you of perline.
The first years of the Masai come lived with spensieratezza and
tranquillity, subsequently, as soon as not grown, the children must
be in a position to facing the quotidianità, the females must know
to make the house matters while the males must know to attend to the
cattle. In the Masai tribe it becomes itself guerrieri to 14 years
and, after the circoncisione, the boy alone must for ritual living
in a small encampment for approximately eight years before being
able to return to the village and to be able themselves to marry.
The parents can decide the wedding of the own daughter when this is
still child the important is that the spouse has of the cattle to
give in exchange. To both seies he comes carried out the
circoncisione, during the operation to the boys is not granted any
to cry some to scream to difference of the girls to which he is
allowed. The Masai wedding can only happen if the man gia has
completed the thirty years of age that is when it is by now
guerriero and certainty is one that these possegga a sure number of
cattle. As far as the feeding the guerriero people nutre of animals
of small ransom like sheep or goats, when the killing of one of the
two no part of the animal happens comes discarded, even come
themselves use you are the hooves are the boneses.
The Masai lives in poor huts constructed with made of essiccate
animals and coppers, generally are the women who are interested are
of procurare the material are of the construction. The "stable ones"
have ovoidale shape, to the outside are recintati from spiny
coppers, than they make you from protection from the feracious
animals. The men have a free bigamismo, that is can marry how many
women wish, the girls from the nine to thirteen years can
liberations have sexual relationships before the wedding. When the
woman abandons the parental home, the father from the own blessing
sputando them on the neck a sorso of latte, to the girl is not
possible to turn behind once left the house, in how much second a
Masai legend, if he had himself to be turned could become of stone.
Before the wedding the young person comes introduced the relatives
of the man who, pull to them lean dung of vacca and they insult it
in order to render it more fort and to put it to the test innanzi to
the difficulties of the life.
ZULÙ
The Zulù is a fundamental part of the Ngui populations, lives mainly
in the Natal. E' one "modern" tribe in the sense that not ago part
from much time to the described population over. It has played
fundamental roles in the history African. Initially the Zulù was a
clan of the Mtetwa tribe who made part of the reign of Dingiswayo.
AKAN
The Akan is people of Western Africa, than alive great part of the
region from the Ivory Coast to the Togo. They speak various
languages about the Kwa family, that we can divide in two groups
correspondents to an ancient subdivision of the stirpe. The families
are patriarcali, based on many members group to you in clan are
matrilineari are patrilineari; the various tribes are straight from
an elective head and were grouped in federations today melted. The
religion of the Akan is animista even if much diffuse they are the
rituals sincretismi and the Christianity; in this territory they are
present secret societies, is male that feminine, that they today
occupy tutt' great space in the social one. The Akan has an
agricultural economy, famous importance has the plantations of
palms. The traditional apparel introduces colors lives to us and is
a lot decorated, the traditional rooms has rectangular plant, is
composed from three rooms, with the walls in clay and the roof of
straw. The art of the Akan introduces a diversity of styles and
topics, like the smallest weights of brass, work to you with the
technique of the "lost wax". The weights represent proverbi tribali
and legends. A lot practiced is the art of the carving of the wood,
often circular stools are produced or rectangular with the seat
incurvato supported from cariatidi it connects you to the cult of
the ancestors: in order to receive the homage of its descendants the
spirit of the defunct one returns to seat where it made from alive.
BEDOUINS
Bedouin is the italianizzato name with which we can define the
arabatizzati nomads that live in steppes and deserts from the
Mesopotamia to the Sahara. Their tribe is composed from numerous
patrilineari families with patriarcale structure, tutt' today the
nomads lives in encampments, constituted from the typical ones
stretches black (BEIT) composed from strisce of stoffa of goat wool.
The economy of the Bedouins is pastorale, it is based on the
breeding of the dromedario of the goat and the horse.
MALGASCI
The Malgasci lives in the Madagascar and they are divided in various
populations with various lineamenti, in common have but the color of
the skin that changes tone, the smooth hats much as far as the
Merina, while for how much I regarded groups more Africans the hats
are rather lanosi. Any person pertaining to the group of the
Malgasci Parla dialetto indonesiano, an official language is the
Malagasy, that she derives from dialetto the Merina. The religion is
based on the Christianity diffused from the Europeans. As far as the
apparel in the villages the ancient traditions are still alive that
is perizoma lumbar and a cape as far as the man, while the women
wear a dress tightened along. The room is a monospace with two
spioventi roofs.
TUAREG
The Tuareg is people of the allocated North Africa mostly in the
Sahara centers them and southern center. In comparison to the
structure of the arabatizzati Berbers, the Tuareg is distinguished
for the high stature, has a corporatura much longilinea, the head
high and lengthened with the round ace in which is evidenced a
nearly aquiline nose and the eye with the most particular eyelid.
Initially this tribe was composed from nomadic shepherds, than
subsequently divennero skillful breeders of camels and horses, much
diffusing is the working of silver, the skins, the mats, the carpets
and of woven it realizes to you with the camel wool. The Tuareg
lives in of stretches of poligonale shape composed from mats or
skins sheep or goat sewn between they, the inner part are divided in
two parts, in one you live the head of the family and the sons of
male sex, in the other the mother and the daughters females not
still married. As far as the apparel, the greater number of the
Tuareg wears the typical traditional clothing: for the wide man a
casacca short, pants with the horse a lot come down, large toga and
a typical hat composed from a wrapped cap of red felt in a great
black veil, white man or blue from which small opening for the eyes
appears only one; the women instead, wear a half-hidden long skirt
from a casacca, and frequently from a great cape that covers from
the head to the feet, their face is always uncovered.
Guido Bissanti
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