Talk:Date cultivation in Dar al-Manasir

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This article has been initiated by [mailto:david@haberlah David Haberlah] 06/2005.

All information on the Manasir supplied by the user David Haberlah results from his field research in Dar al-Manasir in February and March 2005 as a member of the team of Humboldt University Nubian Expedition (H.U.N.E.). H.U.N.E. is headed by the directors Prof. Dr. CLAUDIA NÄSER and Prof. Dr. FRANK KAMMERZELL of the Seminar of Northeast African Archaeology and Cultural Studies primarily responsible for conducting salvage archaeology on the islands of Shiri, Sherari, Sur and Us, and the left bank of the Nile between Salamat and Gebel Musa. In addition H.U.N.E. decided to launch a subproject dealing with the culture of the native Manasir.

This ethnographical research has been financed by the "Programm Kulturerhalt" of the German Department of Foreign Affairs as a contribution to the preservation of the culture of the Manasir. All Manasir living in their homeland Dar al-Manasir are going to be relocated as a result of the flooding of the Hamdab High Dam in the coming years. There is an urgent need for further anthropological research and programs of cultural preservation. The initial author David Haberlah hopes that the nature of Wikipedia will attract both researchers and Manasir to expand the freely available information and knowledge about the Manasir tribe.

I would like to encourage everybody to list academic articles concerning Dar al-Manasir that cannot be published on the Internet here. A copy of new articles should be submitted to the Sudanese National Library to be available to the Sudanese public. In case that you can provide material about the Manasir that does not suit the requirements of Wikipedia, Wikisource or Wikimedia please contact [mailto:david@haberlah H.U.N.E.], who is running the Hompage of Dar al-Manasir.

David Haberlah 10:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Changing references
I'm changing the references and I started with Jackson. Rhetth 02:08, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I finished the job :) - Francis Tyers · 09:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

WTF is the point of this article
No where in this article is it made clear why date cultivation in Dar al Manasir is somehow unique or significant enough to warrant a dedicated article. 66.108.230.117 00:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's true, you can grow dates lots of places, and Dar al Manasir is, superficially, not much different. Yet as the article describes, there are many unique characteristics about Dar al Manasir that have been fleshed out through the research.  For example, the article states "In each date growing region a particular composition of palm tree varieties, including endemic species, are grown."  So each area grows its own types of date varietials, like grapes.  In addition, the research combines the cultural traditions in light of agrarian practices, making it an study of a culture, also.  This makes it notable.  Rhetth (talk) 17:53, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, please don't title your posts with acronystic vulgarities, and sign in when contributing to an article's talk page. Thanks for your contribution, Rhetth (talk) 01:01, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Things to do.
We could use a nice photo for the intro paragraph, and maybe create an infobox for all the other related Dar al-Manasir articles: Rhetth (talk) 18:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Dar al-Manasir
 * Material culture of the Manasir
 * Architecture in Dar al-Manasir
 * Manasir