The People of the World

(Temporany Translation)

In a world where he speaks himself about globalization, it seems right to dedicate a page to us to the main people, and their traditions, than they inhabit it. Trying, in our small, to contribute to that culture that in the globalization the full realization of the single ones sees and of the people. This contribution is also useful to those who, having itself to bring in the Missions in the World, begins to take to familiarità with uses and different customs from ours.

• AFRICA 

The 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.

• AMERICA

MAYA

The Mayan is people of the Guatemala and Mexico. They believe in various divinity like Chac the God of the rain, Kukulkan, and Ek Chuah. Their thought, and round to it places their life is that the month has created the sky the earth and the day. Anciently they were a lot interested to music, played instruments to breath and percussions, their melodie accompanied dances and rituals. In the Mayan cities they are present pyramids, observatories, and above all public squares for every event, ceremonies, exchanges trade them etc. The Mayan sculpture can be divided in two parts, before it comprises stars, and the sculpture to all round; while the second part comprises the architectonic sculptures like the architraves and paintings to the inside of the palaces. The used technique is the bassorilievo. Much rare they are the sculptures in wood, the painting of the Mayan is much diffusing and known, it is through frescoes is through the ceramics. In the God of the rain often frescoes the represented subject is the mask of Chac, in the period postclassic appeared new architectonic elements, in fact, thanks to the use of columns the stocky structure of the buildings was lightened remarkablly.

HAIDA

The Haida population of North America is one. They conserve tutt' hour characteristic somatiche that remembers Polynesia. They were fishermen, and agriculturists of tobacco, every group were divided to noble, plebei and that is enslaved second the class social. Their rooms have a plant to square shape, in wood, and in the frontal external wall there are the totemici poles decorates to you with grotteschi designs. And strongly present it is the practical one of the tatuaggi and the painting of the bodies, uses the piattelli labiali. Skillful and important for the working of the wood, the greater part of their production was tied to of the ceremonies in which they came made the spoons, arms, amulets, bowls and baskets. The subjects of their decorations are the animals visibly deform to you, often in the inner designs it looks at the part of the animal body like vertebre and the ribs. Known and documented also the secret societies where to the inner one they constructed to masks and sticks to you.

ARUAK

The Aruak is an aboriginal population that lives in the Southern America, represents the amazonian culture and the tribes are allocated in Colombia, Venezuela and Brasi them.

GUARANÌ

The Guaranì is an ethnic population of the Southern America, between the more important tribes beyond the Guaranì remembers the Tapè, the Apapocuva, the Guayakì. The Guaranì is the inhabitants of the forest, has much complex traditional unacultura, is organizes to you in great patriarcali families, only lived in of the rectangular huts sufficient for one family. They believed in the rincarnazione, the divinity main were Nandevurucu that is Great Padre and Nandecy that is Our Mother, the sciamano carried out the doctor function. Much diffusing was the piattello labiale. The Guaranì was agriculturists, cultivated maize, tobacco and sugar cane. A lot important the handicraft production of ceramics, woven and skins. Known the urns from they decorated with red geometric designs du deep white man or viceversa.

FUEGINI

The population of the Fuegini before extinguishing itself lived the Earth of the Fire, comprised is the groups arched us of the south and of the west, it is the Ona of the east. The two etnie I had various characters somati to us, the Ona were sturdier, higher, with the lengthened face, while of small stature, you make wide and skin with a color rossiccio was arched to it to us. As far as the apparel the Fuegini, always wore dressed ridottissimi or was knots, they only covered of slippers rudi and a cape of fur in winter. I arched to us lived of peach and of molluschi, they lived in rooms that were of the simple ones frasche. The Ona lived of hunting and collection of fungi and molluschi. The families were patrilineari and the woman lived of freedom rising, as far as the religion both groups believed in a supreme being.

SIOUX

The Sioux is an ethnic group of North America. The Sioux was hunters and maize cultivators, subsequently the passion for the horses carried them in the praterie to the west of the Mississipi where they began to hunt the bisonti. The matrilocali families of type were grouped in clans directed from the old ones, their room were a simple and poor hut made with coppers, in the strongly meant tribes had the sciamano. The Sioux found in bisonti the all that that was they necessary, a lot that it was spoken about culture of the bisonte, with the skin these animals came made the dressed ones, the pants for the men, the shoes and also the cribs for the children. They were they launch the classic axe in stone from combat with which it had to graze the enemy. The Sioux carried a crown hat made with the piume of the Aquila, more piume had more was important.

• ASIA

TAMIL

The Tamil population of India and the Sri Lanka is one. The diffused religion more between these people is the Buddhismo, they was navigators, agriculturists and traders. The woman has a position much elevating regarding the Indù women, and the property of the assets is common for all.

SAMOIEDI

The Samoiedi is a population of the Siberia, that it comprises numerous etnie, today in great part extinct; their lineamenti are many particular: the skull is wide, their stature is much lowland, the tawny colouring clearly with of the glares rossicci, their body is much hairy one, the low face and with the tightened nose, the eyes are small. The economy of the Samoiedi is based on the hunting, the peach and the breeding of the reindeer. Their rooms initially were simple seminterrate huts, subsequently large stretch covered of skins, were just they that they invented the skis, the raquets from snow and it slips it. The winter apparel comprises two long casacche overlapping ones, one with the hair to the inside the other to the outside. Today the Samoiedi is becomes you sedentari and they are dedicated to the breeding of animals from fur, reindeers and horses.

SINGALESI

The Singalesi is ethnic people who live in the Sri Lanka, their life is based on agriculture, on the peach and on the commerce, the practiced religion is the Buddhismo

TATARI

The Tatari is people with Asian origin, they was mongoli shepherds, lived in nomadic encampments, with the wood houses. Their apparel is for the man is for the woman consisted in great pants and from a long tunica, under mento the women carried legacy one zucchetto hemispheric. They were great workers of skins, metals and leather.

The families of patriarcale type, where the woman had to live in an angle to if in she stretches; the color of the skin is tawny, clear hats nearly rossicci, and eyes on the blue.

TUNGUSI

The Tungusi population is one that lives in Siberia, and China. They characterize themselves for the medium stature, with legs and short arms regarding the wide thorax, the head is wide, the ace with zigomi wide, the skin introduces a yellowish color and the smooth and dark hats. Particular characteristics have their traditions like the cult of the bear, the corpse exposures on platforms. Typical they are the slitte to ice-skates hauled from reindeers, the apparel of skin and the ice-skates ovals from snow.

TAGICHI

The Tagichi population of the Turkestan is one, than alive in great part of the Afghanistan. They are shepherds and agriculturists of nomadic origin, the families are of patriarcale type, the power is of old and the head the elect village from the heads of household. Their villages form to you from house-huts are constructed with are known and mud, the Tagichi lives to us here only of winter, while for the summer it is used stretches it.

• EUROPE

BASQUES

The Basques are diffused European people in Spain and in France, he is defined like one of the more characteristic people of Europe, probably they come down from the Iberian populations in how much have in common many features somati to us as the head and the face with triangular shape. The French Basques are various from those Spanish, those French introduce a head of round shape, while the Spanish have the lengthened head. The people are composed for more from seminomadic shepherds, the families are of patriarcale type. The Basque woman is submitted, during the popular festivities she dance separately from the man, and at the moment of the wedding she must yield all its assets, of every type to the husband. The Basques live in rooms in stone, with the wood roof and on the back stable is nearly always one. As far as the customs they use the called hat boina that comes worn tilted on the ear as far as the man, while the woman in head door a cloth called white man estalchi. Much diffuse in this population they are the force games, like the fight with montoni and the duel with the stick.

SLAVS

The Slavs are an ethnic group that lives in Europe orients them, do not exist realize elements in order to understand which religion they make part, it knows that the Slavs not posseggono a God for all, that is lacks one supreme and only figure. Documents speak about the God Perun, it are a celestial God, with all the characteristics of a Supreme Being. Other beings variously document to you would deal the spirits of the dead men.

MAGIARI

The Magiari is a population that lives in Danube Europe, than was settled down in Hungary before being defeats in the 955 from Brass.

• OCEANIA 

ARUNTA

The Arunta is the only tribe of the Oceania, they lives in Australia centers them, their main activity is the hunting.