In traditional beliefs animal body parts hold powers which can be used for healing, divinations or other magical practices involving bribing or otherwise pleasing entities from another world.
Ian Edwards from Department of Anthropology at University of Oregon describes his fieldwork in Mali in his blog Adventures in Bamako. It features very interesting photos Mr. Edwards took during his research on wildlife market in Bamako.
These photos were taken by me in Bamako at Mara Bagga Yorro, an illigal animal body parts or "fetish" market, admittedly marked on a map in the Rough Guide West Africa, but definitely not waiting there purely for a tourist gaze. There are many ingredients available. Among others:
Ian Edwards from Department of Anthropology at University of Oregon describes his fieldwork in Mali in his blog Adventures in Bamako. It features very interesting photos Mr. Edwards took during his research on wildlife market in Bamako.
These photos were taken by me in Bamako at Mara Bagga Yorro, an illigal animal body parts or "fetish" market, admittedly marked on a map in the Rough Guide West Africa, but definitely not waiting there purely for a tourist gaze. There are many ingredients available. Among others:
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| skulls of birds, dried chameleons, cola nuts and shells |
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| porcupine spikes, horns and herbs |
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| heads of rodents and other small mammals |
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| crocodiles and lizards |
As sated in a country profile by Library of Congress, 90% of Mali's society is Muslim, 9% maintains traditional beliefs and 1% of Malians are Christians. Here are temples, all three of them located within Djigibombo, one of Dogon villages. It's a good example of how Christians, Muslims and Animists may coexist together in one area.
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| Animist temple |
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| Mosque |
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| Christian church |
Tea and sugar have a tyrannical and almost obsessive centrality in Morocco. Its preparation and consumption are daily rituals of generosity and exchange, but it is also economically a heavy load to bear. Who pays for how much of the tea and sugar, who owes whom from the other day or last week, and the quality of the ingredients are all constant themes of everyday life. (...) One gets the impression that tea must be one of the oldest and most stable of Moroccan staples, but this is not the case. (...) Actually, tea was introduced into Morocco by the English in the eighteenth century, and it's use did not become widespread until the nineteenth."
Paul Rabinow, Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London 2007, p. 35.
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