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...people ran up and down, so happy were they to be free of those things. It couldn't have been noisier if U.C.L.A. were playing U.S.C." Tribal bloodshed ceased, the fear of spirits abated, and gradually more than 100,000 of the Danis became Christians...
...missionaries even allow male converts who have more than one wife to retain their spouses. The Dillingers reason that to banish all but the first wife would disrupt the tribal culture and cause prostitution. Unmarried converts, however, may take only one wife after joining the church...
...makes periodic guerrilla raids from Angola into Ovamboland, the northern strip of Namibia where most Blacks still live. South Africa has spent the last decade trying to beat them back from the Ovamboland border. Meanwhile, the ruling regime has sought to pull together a party of native moderate leaders--tribal, white and Afrikaner--claiming that they, not SWAPO, represent the population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which would leave whites and Afrikaners in the minority. This barrier, together with South Africa's insistence on keeping a buffer state between itself...
...number of years after World War II, Photographer David Douglas Duncan explored the Middle East. He lived in Cairo and Istanbul, Jerusalem and Tehran. He took his cameras among the Berbers of the High Atlas Mountains of northern Morocco. He joined the tribal migration of the Qashqai nomads across southern Iran. He wandered through the world of Islam as far as Malaya and Indonesia. His fascination with that realm enlivens The World of Allah (Houghton Mifflin; 280 pages; $35). From the film shot in his travels, Duncan has assembled a Pavlova of the highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam...
...including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention: smiles for the boys, frowns for the girls. These miniatures are more than mere playthings. Black dolls of the South were owned by the children of slaves; after the Civil War, dolls were made with new identities: ministers, teachers, fashionable gentlefolk. "If only the dolls themselves could speak...