Understanding Nomadism |
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Who has not heard of nomadic people? Almost all of us are familiar with the Mongols, the Bushmen or the Tuareg... But what do we really know about them? Little, except what sometimes reaches us in the form of television documentaries. Their civilizations are not studied in schools and universities. In fact, they are not even considered civilizations, just curious exceptions to the rule of human beings as sedentary farmers in their evolution towards the Homo urbanus, conceived as the culmination of development.
Logically, what characterizes nomadic peoples is that they roam around and change their residence, but not anywhere or capriciously, but throughout specific habitats that they consider their homelands and in search of food opportunities, above all, but also of shelter. Thus, following cyclical life patterns, they were converting bio-geographic spaces into biocultural ones and, in turn, these micro universes were integrated into extensive eco-regions of great ecological value, although very fragile and sensitive.
Without a doubt, nomads have been the only humans who, like the rest of the animals, adapted to the environment without altering their essence to live from and with nature. That they were seen as barbarians and treated even today with prejudice and marginalization gives an idea of our own way of life, perceived as the center of the world.
Furthermore, this sense of cyclical, communal and truly rational use of the resources that nomads possess is what has led to the dispossession of their territories with impunity and their forced sedentarization with the excuse of providing them with the benefits of "civilization", the same one that provokes overpopulation and, consequently, global warming due to overexploitation, deforestation and air degradation.
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INTERACTIVE MAP OF NOMADIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
500 mobile indigenous communities ic aq para editar.This list is not intended to be a complete one but a compendium of the most significant groups
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