В любой культуре есть ритуалы. Некоторые направлены на укрепление здоровья — и физического, и психического. Об одном из таких ритуалов я хочу рассказать.
В любой культуре есть ритуалы. Некоторые направлены на укрепление здоровья — и физического, и психического. Об одном из таких ритуалов я хочу рассказать.
The Himba tribe is one of the most colorful and unique peoples of Africa, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region, near the border with Angola. It is a mistake to assume that these people are wild. Many Himba have dual citizenship - Himba and Namibia (not many of us can boast passports from two countries :)), but they do not fully recognize Western laws. Their culture, way of life and appearance have remained virtually unchanged for centuries despite globalization. It is understandable that young people leave for the cities, but they also often return to their roots. And why? Let's try to figure it out together...
Conversation on Facebook:
– Where are you?
– Travelling.
– Where this time?
– Where cannibals live.
– ...How are you?
– All parts of my body still belong to me!:)
Seems funny? Click the "like" button. Somebody will say – it can’t be true, what cannibals these days?! A year later after we spent 3 weeks in company with true cannibals as participants of the expedition "Live Parallel in Papua New Guinea", I can hardly believe it myself. Shall we remember it together?
Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.
If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.