Tribes of the Great Rift Valley
- ISBN-10
- 0810994119
- ISBN-13
- 9780810994119
- Category
- Photography / General
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-11
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Author
- Elizabeth L. Gilbert
Description
Tribes of the Great Rift Valley is a celebration and photographic study of the traditional peoples who occupy the tiny, remote villages scattered across the deserts, plains, hills and forests of the Great Rift Valley. From the red-ochre-painted warriors of Samburu to the Mursi with their jutting lip-plates to the guinea-fowl-painted faces of the Karo, the people of the Rift Valley remain among the most untouched and unchanged on the planet.This gorgeously illustrated book provides sweeping views of this wild landscape and its people, from the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Eritrea, across the Ethiopian highlands, and down to the great lakes and primordial forests of Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. These fascinating cultures are remarkably diverse, yet nearly all of their communities and traditions face extinction due to Western influence.For the people of the Rift Valley, this book serves as a historic record of the living traditions they have carried with them into the twenty-first century.
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