RESIDENTS DJERBA
They are now about 120,000 faithful to their land with no rivers
. The majority still regard themselves as Berbers are especially proud of their own language in some villages. After the Arab invasion, seeing impose Islam invaders, they are characterized by a strict interpretation or even "fundamentalist" in this new religion. The island also saw a small Jewish community, one of the oldest in the world. This explains the presence of the jewish synagogue. Jews and Muslims have always lived together in harmony.
Most are merchants and monopolize Jerbans Tunis (and Paris too) stores and other cash. They are also fishermen, their island being one of the richest fishing areas in the Mediterranean. Djerba has 130 km of coastline varied, and all types of fishing are practiced. One technique is the most typical fishing sautade two nets are arranged perpendicular to the first, vertical, prevents the fish jumps to be collected in the second net placed horizontally. These are mostly fishermen catch mullet as well. Another method: fishing jug. It immerses strings of amphorae roped, then they are removed when the octopus are housed.
Having lived in autarky, the Jerbans are currently facing several serious problems: immigration, of course, since much of the youth is forced to go abroad, but also the emergence of modernism and Tourism threatens to destabilize society of the island. Life has become expensive. Some women are abandoned and left fallow land because they no longer earning enough. Many young people, for the same wages (or more), prefer to work in hotels and services rather than as agricultural laborers. The Western ideology, also wreaked havoc on the youth by his side most mystifying, without offering real solutions to their problems and aspirations. Many people now aware of the dangers of a changing economic upheaval and a lifestyle too quickly, begin to react. It is a pity that
Djerba, which has avoided, in large part, the destruction of its environment, fails to preserve its identity. Without denying, of course, the economic windfall of tourism has contributed to the creation of thousands of emoloi.
ARCHITECTURE OF DJERBA
Traditional housing is one of the wonders of the island. No city itself, apart Houmt Souk and Midoun, to a lesser extent. The villages are in fact markets where they went to market or pray at the mosque.
Most residents of Djerba live in the Houches, that is to say, a space composed of garden, barn, yard and menzel, the dwelling house. The earth walls delineate the space is vast. It is believed that the release of women and their distance from the coast to meet safety requirements and were related to multiple invasions. Many have the appearance of menzel minifortins, without windows, with turrets at certain angles.
To fight against the heat, the use of domes and arches of a dazzling whiteness means to ensure freshness much better than flat roofs. Many houses are also equipped with a impluvium to recover rainwater.
A reduced rainfall and lack of sources Jerbans forced to seek water in the basement. Hence the numerous wells that can still be seen today. The island in numbers close to 2500. The presence of a well, allowing a community to survive, has often resulted in the construction of a mosque. When the water source dried up, the community was moving and the mosque was left to be rebuilt around a new well. That is why there are so many mosques on the island (there are, apparently, between 250 and 300 places of worship, mosques and marabouts combined). Today, most water is brought from the mainland via the causeway of the Romans, through a large pipe.
Fortified for the most mosques have an interesting and elegant structure. Minarets in the form of square towers, such towers castles rising into the sky.
Besides menzel, mosques and wells, the architecture is represented by weaving forms very original. They consist of a long piece and right half vault, underground part to maintain a mild temperature in summer and winter. We may also visit one of the many mills ground. As for weaving, a constant temperature is required when the separation of marjin (waste). One can recognize an oil dome at its lowest emerging from the soil. It is typically 5 m in diameter and is whitewashed.
A certain sympathy with peasant is advised to let you visit his home willingly. You will understand better how the merger of the earth, man and his habitat is successful in Djerba.
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RESIDENTS DJERBA
By: Jan Fry
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