At 9:24 PM +0100 1/18/10, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > Nomadic peoples all over the world have a long history of trading >> with settled peoples. They didn't make or find everything themselves; >> they used their mobility to provide rare goods to people who had >> things they needed or wanted. The first items that come to mind are >> hardware (knives, swords, pots, tools, harness fittings), but nomadic >> people traded for all sorts of luxuries as well as mundane necessities. > >Are you implying that nomadic life would be impossible in the absence >of a settled society?
Not at all. I was just claiming that nomads can and have had tethers to society. Having an economic relationship with settled peoples is more the norm for nomads who coexist with settlers than not having such a relationship. A mutually beneficial economic relationship might in fact be the key to a mostly peaceful coexistence between nomads and settlers. > > The more nomadic the person these days, the more likely they are to >> have a cell phone. > >A life of subjugation to settled societies. I am a tree. I've lived in the same house since 1986. I met a young woman a couple of months back who shared her vision of a traveling village. She said she'd been on the streets off and on since she was 15 (she's now 32) and that she is not meant to live in one place. She spoke of having a traveling village that went from city to city ministering to street kids, feeding them and educating them and giving them medical care. She was a little crazy, but it was a good kind of crazy. I told her I'd pray for her vision and she gave me a tiny glass angel. -- Heather Madrone ([email protected]) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.
