Kommen wir zu inhaltlichen Fragen zurück über das Buch: "Die Samburu"
Da ich das Buch nicht kenne, es bereits mehr als 20 Jahre alt ist und bei Amazon auch keine Rezensionen zu lesen sind,
wäre ich froh, wenn du uns Unwissenden eine kurze Zusammenstellung des Inhalts geben würdest.
Danke Mzeekenia
Hast Du meinen Link zur Englischen Ausgabe übersehen? Hier nochmals die gewünschten Rezensionen für Dich zum nachlesen. Ja es ist 20 Jahre alt, doch hat sich die Kultur der Samburu nicht wirklich verändert, wie Du ja selbst immer betonst.
"From Library Journal
If Magor's book is any indication, the fawningly romantic view of the pastoralists of East Africa promulgated since the 19th century is still alive and well. In one caption to a photo of a slumbering herdsman, we are told how much grace and poise the Samuru have even while asleep. It is indeed fortunate, however, that the 200-plus excellent color photos coupled with the ethnographically detailed text manage to make this book a useful resource on the Samburu people of northern Kenya. Less well known than the Masai (who live further south), with whom they share many social and material cultural features-especially the importance of a military-based age grade system and the aesthetic emphasis given to the body arts-the Samburu are nonetheless a distinct culture that Magor documents in word and image. Well recommended for public and academic libraries with an interest in Africa.
Eugene C. Burt, Art Inst. of Seattle Lib.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
It seems that every so-called primitive tribe in the world has been documented repeatedly. But when a people are presented in prose as clear and in photos as intimate and affectionate as Magor's, it behooves libraries to add one more work of popular ethnography to their shelves. Magor is a native white Kenyan who, returning from education and a successful modeling career in England, overcame the reserve of the seminomadic Samburu (previously treated in Pavitt's Samburu [1992]), who are so xenophobic that, Magor says, they call themselves hard-hearted. She records their ways, especially their men's warriorhood, during which they are young, "at the peak of their physical prowess," and "the guardians of the community and its cattle." Ray Olson
From Kirkus Reviews
An intimate, sometimes striking photo-essay detailing the folkways of the Samburu, a warrior-based society of northern Kenya. Magor, a Kenyan-born model who studied design in England, lived among the Samburu for six years, recording the daily rhythms and significant ceremonies of this traditional culture, whose members depend on herds of cattle, goats, and camels for their survival. Living in semi-arid scrublands, the Samburu follow rigidly circumscribed patterns that dictate age- and gender-based divisions of labor, family and social organization, and the timing and enactment of rites of passage. The book's principle focus is on lmurran, the young warriors whose duties are to guard the community and its herds. Flamboyantly attired in ivory earrings, colored beads, bracelets, and feathers, their faces and upper bodies smeared with red ocher, they are photographed leaning upon their spears, chanting and leaping during a warrior's dance, and slitting a cow's vein for blood (which, along with milk and meat, forms the diet of the Samburu). Having gained the trust of her subjects, Magor photographed the circumcision rights performed on teenage boys, as well as the preparations for and aftermath of female circumcision performed on young girls before marriage. These pictures and their accompanying captions may be jarring to Western sensibilities, but Magor's writing is dispassionate and informative. Her camera also chronicles wedding ceremonies; rituals denoting the passage from warrior status to elder status (at which time a man can marry and take part in council meetings); and, poignantly, a private ceremony performed on a riverbank by a mother whose son is ready to move from her home. Also photographed or described are the more prosaic features of Samburu life: care of livestock, the hierarchial arrangement of huts in the villages based on the status of the elders, and the harsh but beautiful Kenyan landscape. With over 200 color photos, this is a well-documented record of one of the last remaining societies of its kind. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved."
Ich hatte Dir ein zweites Buch benannt:
Rhodia Mann "Talk to the Stars: The Samburu of Northern Kenya"
Leider konnte ich bisher nur einen Auszug aus diesem Buch lesen.
Was meinst Du zum Inhalt dieses Buches als Schriftsteller und Kenner der Samburu?
Übrigens scheint Dein Gedächtnis zu leiden:
Ich habe bereits früher geschrieben, dass sich letztes Jahr - bei den von Berg-Eule beanstandeten drei Threads , die ich angeblich hoch gepusht habe - ein einziger Fomi zu einer Spende hat hinreissen lassen.
Also ich persönlich kenne schon "DREI FOMIS". Da ich der wohl von Dir benannte Spender war, hast Du die anderen wohl glatt im Eifer des Gefechtes übersehen. Sollte man so nicht tun. Ja ich habe mein Geld zurück erhalten und werde es Deinem Projekt auf keinen Fall mehr zukommen lassen. Wie Berg-Eule mehrfach schrieb, gibt es tausende andere Projekte auf dieser Welt, und viele werden nicht von selbstherrlichen Menschen geführt.
Noch ein Übrigens als Info gedacht. Kenia hat seit Wochen noch andere ungelöste Probleme als Archers Post.
Ein Zitat von SkyNews von Heute 05.03.2017:
"Family friends have confirmed that Tristan Voorspuy, a former British army officer, has been found shot dead on a ranch in northern Kenya. Once a tourist paradise and one of the two most important conservation areas in Kenya, the northern region of Laikipia has been a tribal battleground for months. Several Kenyans have been killed and driven off the land by invaders from the Samburu, Pokot and Masai tribes who are heavily armed and use ammunition made in government factories. Mr Voorspuy, a co-owner of the Sosian Ranch, ran horseback safaris for decades with his wife Cindy. He rode out to inspect one of three homes torched by invaders on Sunday morning amid reports that hardcore Samburu militia were still on the rampage. His horse was found shot dead at noon and his body found a few hours later. Mr Voorspuy, a former officer in the Life Guards, had worked hard with other locals to protect African farms against the marauding gangs. But on Sunday night efforts to retrieve his body by his family in a pickup were met with a hail of bullets. Three miles away, family friends said, Kenyan police numbering up to 250 with two armoured vehicles refused to intervene. "His body has been seen by our scouts and is being held by the militia in the burned out remains of one of the three houses destroyed at the weekend," a family friend said. "
Bleibt noch eine letzte Frage:
Am 02.03.2017 hast Du verkündet, dass Du am darauffolgenden Tag die Viehmärkte von Meru und Maralal besuchen wirst, um das gestohlene Vieh zu finden. 500 km auf Kenianischen Strassen, eine aufopferungsvolle Leistung an nur einem Tag. Das Ergebnis hast Du wohl vergessen, der Öffentlichkeit hier zu präsentieren. War es erfolglos oder war die ganze Aktion kurzfristig abgeblasen?
Nun ich habe zwar keinen blassen Schimmer von Afrika, gebe nur enorm viel Geld für unsere Touren aus, aber ein wenig lesen hilft mir, meine UNWISSENHEIT jeden Tag ein wenig zu verringern. Vollkommenheit werde ich da bis zum Ende meiner Tage nicht erreichen.
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