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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Issa Mohammed. Timecode In: 00:00:18. Timecode out: 00:08:52. Notes: Modern life, culture, and spirituality. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Chris Rainier. Timecode In: 00:10:11. Timecode out: 00:25:44. Notes: Ethnosphere project; World cultures. Subject 3: Sheep (Ovis aries). Timecode In: 00:37:42. Timecode out: 00:38:13. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Muslim call to prayer. Timecode In: 00:45:52. Timecode out: 00:58:48. Notes: Takbir, Allha Akbar; Djenne Mosque. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS Stereo. Show: Mali Log of DAT #:14A Engineer: Leo Date: January 24th, 2003 G = Godfried Peter Agbezudor IM = Issa Mohammed R = Roberto Cerea WD = Wade Davis CR = Chris Rainier AC = Alex Chadwick CJ = Carolyn Jensen Leo = Leo del Aguila 0:19 WD-Issa, you've had obviously in Mali lot's of anthropologists "study" cultures here, but you've also been a Malian historian in America so you've seen America through the Malian lens. You've obviously seen all the wonderful things about America and enjoyed them, but what have you seen about America that has left you confused, if anything? 0:50 IM-My confusion is due to the fact that how is it that somebody is wealthy? Most people do have what they need but there is a sort of an unhappiness and that you can see it in relationship between husband and wife, you can see it between children and parents, you can see it at work. Most people will tell you "I'm just trying to make the ends meet, I don't like this job", you see. So this is really how for me things are not really fitting in. How is it that somebody has their cars, their homes and things and money, and yet they are not quite happy. There is something that is missing. And that you can see it yourself, Wade, in the new trend, in new spiritual trend, in new take-off where people go and meditate and ponder either because they go back to Christianity, to Judaism, to Islam, or to Hinduism. So there is something that the human soul is seeking. WD-And that brought you back to Islam? 2:09 IM-Ya, that myself brought me back to Islam because I get carried away a little bit myself and finally I find myself empty inside. It is a little bit like a plant that is drying. You see, there is a lot of water around me, still I was drying inside. So I picked up a copy of the Koran and I started reading it. Then the tears were just coming down and my heart became warm and I said yes, this is what I am missing. You see? So now this Koran around here with the material base that America is providing me I am a complete human being to be able to marry your spiritual side with your material side. WD-What does this then tell you about the future in a sense of the world as all different cultures are becoming intermingled or intertwined? Often we lament that process because we see it as a process of assimilation, acculturation, we see it as a language loss and so on, but there's also a positive aspect to it, of course, which is that we all hope that we can benefit from the aspects of all the collective imagination as being brought into being by culture. 3:41 IM-Yes. For me the collective imagination, cultures coming together represents unity and understanding for me. And there is a term in business that say a global village, that the world is becoming an economic global village, but we need to act with a global, spiritual, cultural, and social village. I think that is for our benefit as human beings. Provided that we really honor and respect other cultures, that there is no arrogance in terms of this is a supreme culture and this is an indigenous, archaic, you know I'm glad I'm not part of this but I can watch it on Discovery Channel. We have to be able to embrace because every culture has it's own specific set of knowledge, which when shared with humanity becomes beneficial to all. We... (Notes truncated)
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