The Imlil Valley : Fieldwork Data![]()
The Imlil Valley snakes up into the High Atlas with Asni the village
at its foot and Imlil at the head of the valley. As you progress up the
unsurfaced road there are surprises like the opulent summer home at the Asni
end but further you see little groups of houses clinging to the hillside.
Each settlement is clan based, often with extended families living there and
each trying to make a living from pastoral activities and farming. The
valley in May comes alive with tree blossom, walnuts, apples and the many
rivulets and streams are channelled through segueas into small fields, some
no bigger than pocket handkerchiefs, with stones taken from the ground
around the perimeter to keep out small flocks of sheep and goats. The houses clinging to the rocky hills are above the cultivated land in the river valley, they are flat roofed and in the morning come alive with colour as the blankets and rugs are hung out of windows and over walls to air. Each house tries to get a supply of water into their catchment basins fed from the riverlets by plastic piping. The orange and blue of the pipe snake across the hillsides. We have been collecting data on fieldtrips for several years now and as a "taster" there are links to display data from 1989 so that you can form an opinion about the nature of these settlements. The data concentrates on Imlil and the villages in the immediate area and their inhabitants. The web pages shown here are partial digests of the whole data (and presented in text form because of the speed of download compared to the tables function of many browsers).The Data is also available in file format for downloading so that you may use the data directly. This file data is in two formats, the most universal being Comma Separated Value which will run on most computers and Excel format for those users with that package.
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