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Title: Transhumant<\/em><\/strong> – Year: 2019 – Place: Saghrou (Morocco) – Author & Copyright: Inan\u00e7 TEKG\u00dc\u00c7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ON THE LONG TRAIL: Ait Atta, transhumants of the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is it like to be an individual among a tribe? Is there such a thing when belonging to a larger community of mobile pastoralists ever since you were born? Is there such a thing when you walk up the Atlas Mountains towards the Igourdane agdal<\/em> pastoral common and back every year, on a journey that has been the same for as long the memory of the blood can recall? When it\u2019s just you, your tribe, your herd, and the immense African night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up there, one often seems to be less singular, and more a meaningful part of a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: Position of Igourdane highland pastures and one of its main transhumant roads <\/strong>
Year: 2021
Place: Igourdane (Morocco)
Author & Copyright: Pablo Dom\u00ednguez (inset courtesy of Google Earth Engine).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: The agdal commons through the seasons <\/strong>
Year: 2019
Place: Igourdane (Morocco)
Author & Copyright: Inan\u00e7 TEKG\u00dc\u00c7<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the seasonal movements of the pastoralists, up to the highlands in late spring and down to the lowlands in autumn, the agdal<\/em> landscape is dramatically transformed, from being covered with white snow in winter, to vibrant green grass in spring, and fully grazed by the end of the summer. But these landscapes can only exist through collective organization and the prohibition to graze at key dates, that allows it all to be renewed and  to flourish again year after year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your home<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Your home is not yours, it belongs to the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: Biocultural bonds<\/strong>
Year: 2019
Place: Saghrou (Morocco)
Author & Copyright: Eda Elif TIBET<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agdal is a form of diffused craftsmanship, whose name reveals its secret: agdal is a term derived from the Berber root \u2018GDL\u2019 which can refer to various meanings such as \u2018protection\u2019, \u2018prohibition\u2019, a \u2018territory\u2019 in itself or even \u2018to pasture\u2019. In the High Atlas, it most often refers to the ancient system of community resource governance but also to the protected territory itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igourdane is one of these extensive highland pastoral agdals, of over 4,000 hectares (40 km2), and is collectively governed by a community composed of 250 families and their livestock belonging to three tribes. Every year these tribes decide to close the agdal to pasture in the month of April and not open it until early June, allowing the vegetation to regenerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your name<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Your name is not yours, it belongs to the group.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: Three Generations. The Ben Youssef Family<\/strong>
Year: 2019
Place: Saghrou & Nkob (Morocco)
Author & Copyright: Inan\u00e7 TEKG\u00dc\u00c7<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ait M\u2019hamed, Ait Bouguemez and Ait Atta: those are the names of the three tribes agdaling Igourdane. These tribes have been following the rhythm of the seasons for generations, in a concerted effort that requires every individual to surrender to and comply with the collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ait Atta leave their children in town with relatives until they are old enough to join the rest of the family in a destiny that many will cyclically fulfill until the end of their life. It is almost impossible for someone who has not grown up with such a deep vision of the pastures to even imagine what it is to be fully integrated in this whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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