Nomads of Mauritania

Diane Himpan Sabatier · Brigitte Himpan

Jun 2019 · Vernon Press

About this ebook

'Nomads of Mauritania' aims at understanding the cultural identity (religious beliefs, language, values, relationships with others) of the Mauritanian nomads through their geographical environment, an original history, their lifestyle, caste system, diet, housing and crafts and how it is revealed by their art, materially expressed on the everyday objects and the body and defined for the first time as geometrical-abstract and respectively as ephemeral usual art and ephemeral living art. Furthermore, what has become of the nomads of Mauritania with the climate warming and the economic and cultural globalization and to what extent are they still the pillars and heart of the Mauritanian society of today?

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Complete, detailed, clear, well illustrated about the culture of the Mauritanian nomads : “Nomads of Mauritania” deals with: 1) the culture (geography, history, way of life, cast system, diet, housing, crafts, religion, language, values, art) of the Mauritanian nomads, which is revealed notably through their art expressed on usual objects and body and defined for the first time as geometrical-abstract art and respectively as ephemeral usual art and ephemeral living art; 2) and their future within the climate warming, overpopulation and (economic and cultural) globalization.

About the author

Brigitte Himpan, Artist Painter, obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 1983 at the University of Paris VIII (France) about the everyday life of the Mauritanian nomads through their usual objects and a post-graduate pre-PhD’s degree in Philosophy of Art and Culture in 1986 at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I (France) concerning the cultural identity of the Mauritanian nomads.

Diane Himpan-Sabatier is a graduate from the Higher Institute of Management (ISG, Paris) in 1994 and from the Higher School of Cinema Studies (ESEC, Paris) in 1996 and the author of a post-graduate pre-PhD’s thesis at the School of International High Studies (EHEI, Paris) in 1996.