Tag: traditional calendar
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The Months of the Year in Nawdm: A Calendar Rooted in Nature and Farming
The names of the months in the Nawdm language tell a story about the relationship between the Nawdba people, their environment and their traditional way of life. Rather than being labels attached to January through December, the traditional Nawdm month names are connected to the changing conditions of the year: dryness and heat, hunting, preparation…
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The Traditional Ewe Months: What Each Name Really Means
A month is usually treated as nothing more than a block of time on a wall calendar. But in many traditional communities, the names given to months carry something much richer: direct observations about the land, the weather, what grows, what burns, and what people actually do with their hands during that period of the…
