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Quote: "Sakanab" Greetings and information among the Beja people . by Professor John Morton, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich The article describes the ritual greetings Beja of the Red Sea Hills in Sudan. He suggested that the transmission of economically useful information could be a more important function of greetings in various societies that would have previously thought. The Beja are a people of shepherds, but the groups described are not overly mobile, tending to remain on the territory of lineage until they learn that there are rains, which are not only rare but also highly unpredictable and often highly localized. These news are transmitted during greetings are particularly prominent a feature of the lives of Beja, which typically take place when the shepherds will buy in small shopping centers. Greetings are based on a rapid alternation of short rhetorical questions and subsequent requests for new data or news. Greetings and news are not considered as two separate things, but intertwined in the ceremony and terminologically identified. The result is a new transmission remarkably fast, reliable and open a 'generalized reciprocity'* information. Greetings are first lieu regarded as a dramatic representation of the predominant features of society and culture Beja: the Muslim religion, the obligations of hospitality, the rhythms of the Beja language itself and common difficulties shepherds in an insecure environment. Invoking these themes, Beja remember their mutual obligations to help each other to survive.