Nomads of Mauritania

Nomads of Mauritania PDF Author: Diane Himpan Sabatier
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 162273582X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Get Book Here

Book Description
'Nomads of Mauritania' aims at understanding the cultural identity (religious beliefs, language, values, relationships with others) of the Mauritanian nomads through their geographical environment, an original history, their lifestyle, caste system, diet, housing and crafts and how it is revealed by their art, materially expressed on the everyday objects and the body and defined for the first time as geometrical-abstract and respectively as ephemeral usual art and ephemeral living art. Furthermore, what has become of the nomads of Mauritania with the climate warming and the economic and cultural globalization and to what extent are they still the pillars and heart of the Mauritanian society of today?