ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kelabit People, Twine, Arctic Bay
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Timbuktu and the ancient saharan salt mine of taudenni, the agony of. Summing up and review, and a final story from the fabled city of. 85% of the population became labeled as hutu, with the remainder tutsi. Eventually they took over: today in rwanda, no one is allowed to identify themselves as tutsi or. Hutu: timbuktu, located in mali became the most important port on the great sea of sand that was the western desert. It was the centres of islamic culture and learning. Indigenous cultures are not destined to fade away as if by natural law. If human beings are the agents of cultural destruction, we can surely be the facilitators of cultural survival. Culture is a blanket of comfort that gives meaning to lives. Culture alone allows us to reach, as abraham lincoln said, for the better angels of our nature. To lose a culture is to lose something of our selves.
