Livestock Are Food, Money and Status

Icale is an acute listener and compelling story teller. As he describes different ways of moving through the landscape, his long limbs are folded like those of a contortionist. Mobility is an essential strategy, as akale's first wife, nakir, explains to me one morning we move with the reins. Livestock are food, money and status. To have live stock is to have everything, or at least enough. The things that matter are all close at hand. Family livestock. In contemporary takana, the word for ancestors is ingipen. And ekale can also navigate the land by their resting places. He recently returned from a visit to his father